Pop singer Daler Mehndi convicted gets 2 year jail for Human Trafficking

Pop singer Daler Mehndi convicted gets 2 year jail for Human Trafficking

A case against Daler Mehndi, his brother Shamsher and some of his associates was registered by the Patiala police following a complaint filed by one Bakshish Singh of Balbehra village in Punjab in 2003.

The complainant had alleged that he had been duped by the Mehndi brothers who received lakhs of rupees from him on the pretext of sending him abroad as a member of the troupe of Daler Mehndi. Shamsher died in October 2017. Shamsher was a part of brother Daler Mehndi's troupe and performed at several stage shows.

After the case was registered, many people came forward with similar complaints against the two brothers.

The complaints had alleged that Daler Mehndi and his brother Shamsher Singh had taken "passage money" from them to help them migrate to the US "illegally", but had failed to do so.

Patiala Police raided the offices of Daler Mehndi at Connaught Place in New Delhi and seized documents, including the case file of those who had paid the alleged "passage money" to Mehndi brothers.

In 2006, Patiala Police filed two discharge petitions stating Daler Mehndi to be innocent, but the court had upheld that the singer be prosecuted as there was "sufficient evidence against him on the judicial file and scope for further investigation".

The first discharge petition was filed in February 2006 stating that Mehndi should be discharged of all the charges as he had been found to be innocent in the case.

After this police again filed an application to discharge him but again Court rejected the second application and ordered the police to file a fresh challan against Mehndi.

Punjabi pop singer Daler Mehndi has been sentenced to two years in prison after he was convicted in a 2003 human trafficking case by a court in Delhi

Daler Mehndi and his brother, Shamsher Singh, had been accused of illegally sending people abroad disguised as members of his troupe by charging hefty "passage money."

The Mehndi brothers had allegedly taken two troupes in 1998 and 1999 during the course of which 10 persons were taken to the US as group members and were "dropped off" illegally.

Daler Mehndi, on a trip to the US in the company of an actress had allegedly "dropped off" three girls at San Francisco.

Both brothers took another troupe to the US in October 1999 in the company of some other actors during which three boys were "dropped off" at New Jersey.

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Friday, March 16, 2018

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