Singer Daler Mehndi arrested after court upholds 2-year sentence in human trafficking case
Popular Indian Singer Daler Mehndi was on Thursday arrested by Punjab police after a Patiala court sentenced him to two years of imprisonment in a human trafficking case on Thursday.
The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge HS Grewal today dismissed Mehndi’s appeal. His petition for bail plea, a request to be released on probation were dismissed too, so he was taken to the Patiala Jail.
The court has punished the Punjabi singer for two years against the appeal.
Notably, in 2003, Daler, his now deceased brother Shamsher Singh, and two others were booked by Patiala police, in a human trafficking case. He was convicted under sections 406, 420, 120B, 465, 468, 471 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Indian Passport Act after an FIR at the Sadar Patiala police station then.
As per reports, some complainants said that he had taken varying amounts of money in the range of around 12 lakh rupees from people in exchange for sending them to foreign countries, mostly Canada and the USA illegally.