The Patiala district courtroom on Thursday upheld the two-year jail time period of Punjabi pop singer Daler Mehndi, who in 2018 was sentenced for a 2003 human trafficking case.

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Additional district and session choose HS Grewal dismissed the singer’s enchantment towards conviction and upheld the choice of decrease courtroom that had held Mehndi responsible beneath Section 420 (dishonest) and 120B (conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code. The trial courtroom had sentenced him to 2 years’ imprisonment and in addition imposed a high quality of 2,000.

He was on bail as he had appealed towards the choice of the trial courtroom. After the extra district periods choose dismissed Mehndi’s enchantment, he was taken into custody. He is more likely to be despatched to Patiala jail, the place cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu can be lodged.

The Patiala police had booked Daler and his brother Shamsher Mehndi, who died in 2017, and two others on a grievance filed by Bakshish Singh of Balbera village. Bakshish alleged that Mehndi took 12 lakh to ship him to Canada. Thirty-five extra complaints, levelling prices of fraud towards the brothers, got here up later.

While Shamsher and Dhian Singh died throughout trial, Bulbul Mehta, an worker of Mehndi agency, was acquired for lack of proof.

The complainants had alleged that the Mehandi brothers had taken “passage money” from them to assist them migrate to the US illegally, however failed to take action.

It was additionally alleged that the Mehndi brothers had taken two troupes in 1998 and 1999 throughout which 10 folks have been taken to the US as group members and have been “dropped off” illegally.

Patiala police had even raided the places of work of Daler at Connaught Place in Delhi and seized paperwork, together with the case file of those that had paid the alleged “passage money” to the Mehndi brothers.

In 2006, Patiala police filed two discharge petitions Daler to be harmless, however the courtroom upheld that the singer be prosecuted as there was “sufficient evidence against him on the judicial file and scope for further investigation”.

Complainant Bakshish Singh stated that he confronted threats throughout the 19-year of pendency of the case to get justice. He stated that he’ll strategy increased courtroom to extend the sentence.

Case file

October 19, 2003: Patiala police register FIR towards Daler, his brother Shamsher and others

December 19: Daler arrested in Delhi. Police charged him with indulging in human trafficking since 1997

February 2005: Singer requested for re-investigation

January 2006: Police filed two discharge petitions terming Daler to be harmless

October 2006: Court dominated that the singer be prosecuted as there was sufficient proof towards him

October 2017: Co-accused Shamsher Mehndi dies

March 2018: Court awarded two-year imprisonment and 2000 high quality

July 2022: Court dismissed enchantment of Daler towards conviction