A Patiala court on Thursday announced a two-year-jail term for Punjabi singer Daler Mehendi in a human trafficking case that dates back to 2003. The court dismissed the plea today and the singer was arrested and sent to jail.
The Patiala Sessions Court on Thursday (July 14) upheld 2018 verdict by a trial court sentencing Daler Mehndi to two years imprisonment in a human trafficking case that dates back to 2003.
In September 2003, Shamsher Mehndi, elder brother of Daler Mehndi, was accused of illegally taking people abroad through pigeon pelting music bands, following which an FIR was filed.
Daler Mehndi’s name also came up in this case during the investigation.
In the FIR registered in 2003, Daler Mehndi and his brother Shamsher Singh were accused of taking money to illegally send people abroad via the ‘troupe’ route.
After 15 years in 2018, the lower court sentenced him to 2 years imprisonment, which has now been upheld by the sessions court as well.
