Punjabi pop vocalist Daler Mehndi was on Friday indicted in a 2003 human trafficking case by a court in Patiala. He was condemned to two years in prison and was later conceded safeguard.
“I have been allowed safeguard. We will bid in higher court,” the artist said.
The Patiala police had booked Daler Mehndi and his sibling Shamsher Mehndi — who passed on a year ago — on a grumbling recorded by one Bakshish Singh. Around 35 more grumblings, leveling charges of extortion against the siblings, came up later.
The complainants had claimed that the Mehandi siblings had taken ‘entry cash’ from them to enable them to relocate to the US wrongfully, however neglected to do as such.
It was additionally charged that Mehndi siblings had taken two troupes in 1998 and 1999 amid which 10 individuals were taken to the US as gathering individuals and were “dropped off” wrongfully.
Patiala Police had even attacked the workplaces of Daler Mehndi at Connaught Place in New Delhi and seized archives, including the case record of the individuals who had paid the claimed “section cash” to Mehndi siblings.
In 2006, Patiala Police documented two release petitions expressing Daler Mehndi to be guiltless, however the court had maintained that the vocalist be indicted as there seemed to be “adequate proof against him on the legal record and degree for facilitate examination”.