PATIALA: Punjabi pop singer Daler Mehndi was sentenced to two years in prison in a human trafficking case in 2003 after a Patiala district court dismissed the singer’s appeal.
The renowned singer was previously sentenced in 2018, but was released on bail. Additional District and Session Judge HS Grewal dismissed the singer’s appeal against the conviction and upheld the lower court’s decision that Mehndi had been found guilty under Section 420 (cheating) and 120B (conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code. buy abilify online
The court of first instance sentenced him to two years in prison and also fined him INR 2,000 in the human trafficking case. After the additional district court judge dismissed Mehndi’s appeal, he was arrested.
It is pertinent to mention here that the Patiala police had booked Daler and his brother Shamsher Mehndi, who died in 2017, and two others on a complaint filed by Bakshish Singh from Balbera village.
Bakshish alleged that Mehndi took INR12 lakh to send to Canada.
Thirty-five more complaints, bringing charges of fraud against the brothers, later surfaced.
While Shamsher and Dhian Singh died during the trial, Bulbul Mehta, an employee of the Mehndi firm, was acquitted for lack of evidence. buy lariam online
The whistleblowers had alleged that the Mehndi brothers had taken money from them to help them immigrate illegally to the US, but did not do so.
It was also alleged that the Mehndi brothers had taken over two companies in 1998 and 1999 during which 10 people were brought to the US as members of the group and illegally “dropped off”.
In 2006, the Patiala police filed two release requests stating that Daler was innocent, but the court confirmed that the singer was to be prosecuted because there was “sufficient evidence against him in the court file and scope for further investigation”. buy symbicort inhaler online
