Daler Mehndi convicted in a 19-year-old human trafficking case; sentenced to two-year jail term – FilmyVoice
Punjabi pop music icon Daler Mehndi on Thursday has been awarded a two-year jail time period in a 19-year-old human trafficking case. The singer was convicted alongside together with his brother Shamsher Singh in March 2018 and later launched on bail. As his bail plea was dismissed by the courtroom of Extra Periods Decide H.S. Grewal, he was taken into custody and shall be despatched to Patiala jail the place Navjot Singh Sidhu is lodged.
Police had registered a case towards the singer, his brother Shamsher Singh — who died in October 2017 — and two others, after it was alleged that the accused took cash from individuals to the tune of Rs 1 crore on the pretext of taking them overseas. Complainant, Bakhshish Singh, alleged that the deal by no means matured and the accused didn’t return the cash.
Police had earlier moved two petitions earlier than the courtroom saying that Daler Mehndi was not required within the case as he had nothing to do with the immigration fraud, referred to as ‘kabootarbaazi’ — actually flying of pigeons however referring to quite a few youth in Punjab attempting to make use of unlawful means to settle overseas.
The singer was arrested by the police in October 2003 alongside together with his brother after the complainant stated he was duped of an enormous sum of cash by the 2, who had promised to take him overseas as a part of their musical group and to depart him in some western nation to settle there.
Police officers, after investigations, had said that the singers and different performers had received right into a well-organised racket to illegally take youth out of Punjab to western international locations by making them a part of musical troupes. The youth had been charged as much as Rs 2 million in every case.
However after police began the proceedings that Daler Mehndi had nothing to do with the immigration fraud case, the complainant moved courtroom once more objecting to the singer being discharged. He stated that each the brothers had duped him.
Daler Mehndi’s arrest was fairly controversial at a police station in Patiala in 2003 as he was requested to strip by a number of junior cops throughout interrogation. He spent a number of days behind lock-up earlier than being launched on bail.
His youthful brother, singer Mika, who accompanied him throughout the give up in 2003, needed to beat a hasty retreat close to the police station when an “organised” mob surrounded their automobiles.
(With IANS Inputs)
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