The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu to face trial in a case pertaining to the 2009 Lok Sabha election. Sidhu, who had won the Amritsar seat on a Bharatiya Janata Party ticket, has been accused of exceeding the election expenditure limit of Rs 25 lakh and transferring 11 officers.

However, the apex court said that Sidhu will only be tried for appointing officers of his choice, reported India Today. The proceedings will be held in Punjab and Haryana High Court that had earlier asked him to face trials.

Sidhu has been in the news recently for quitting the BJP and resigning from the Rajya Sabha. On September 2, he floated his own political front, Aawaaz-e-Punjab, which will contest the Punjab election next year.

This is not the first time that Sidhu has been involved in a legal problem. In 2006, he was convicted by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in a road rage case. A year later, the Supreme Court stayed the high court's verdict, reported The Financial Times.