Daler Mehndi to go to jail; Patiala court rejected his application
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in
Bollywood and Punjabi pop singer Daler Mehndi appeal to dismiss his two year sentence has once again been dismissed by the additional session judge, Patiala on Thursday. He was convicted in a 2003 human trafficking case by a court in Patiala. He was sentenced to two years in jail in March 2018 and was later granted bail.
On September 16 2021 he moved an application in the local court to dismiss his sentence. But, once again local court dismissed his application and continued his earlier two year sentence.
After the judgment, Patiala police has taken Daler Mehndi in his custody.He may be shifted to Patiala central jail.
In 2018, then the Court of Judicial Magistrate Nidhi Saini, held Daler Mehndi guilty under section 420 (Cheating) and 120 (B) of the Indian Penal Code (Conspiracy).
The Patiala police had booked Daler and his brother, Shamsher Mehndi, on a complaint filed by one Bakshish Singh. Around 35 more complaints, levelling charges of fraud against the brothers also came up later.
The complainants alleged that the brothers had taken ‘passage money’ from them to help them migrate to the United States illegally, but failed to do so.
It has been alleged that the Mehndi brothers took two troupes in 1998 and 1999 during the course of which 10 persons were taken to the U.S. as group members and “dropped off” illegally. Daler, on a trip to the U.S. in the company of an actress, allegedly “dropped off” three girls in San Francisco.
The brothers had taken a troupe to the U.S. in October, 1999, in the company of some other actors, during which three boys were “dropped off” in New Jersey.
The Patiala police had raided the singer’s offices in Connaught Place in New Delhi and seized case files of those who had paid the Mehndi brothers passage money.
Daler Mehndi appeared in Patiala court; argument on his appeal begins
July 14,2022
