A Patiala court suspended Daler Mehndi’s two-year jail term in a 2003 human trafficking case. The Court of the Additional District and Sessions Judge suspended the sentence after admitting an appeal moved by his defence counsel challenging the conviction.
The sessions court also asked him to file a Rs 50,000 bail bond. Daler Mehndi was held guilty under sections including 420, 120 B of the IPC by the court of Judicial Magistrate Nidhi Saini. Patiala police had registered a case against Daler Mehndi and few others on a complaint filed by one Bakshish Singh.
The complainants had alleged that the Mehndi and his brother had taken ‘passage money’ from them to help them migrate to the US illegally, but failed to do so. Singh alleged that the Punjabi singer had taken money for taking him to Canada. It was further alleged that the Mehndi brothers took two troupes in 1998 and 1999 during the course of which 10 persons were taken to the US as group members and “dropped off” illegally as well.
