Daler Mehndi convicted in 2003 immigration scandal case, gets bail
BY MPOST BUREAU16 March 2018 11:34 PM IST
MPOST BUREAU17 March 2018 5:05 AM IST
NEW DELHI: Minutes after he was sentenced to two years in jail in a 2003 human trafficking case by a court in Patiala, Punjabi pop singer Daler Mehndi has been granted bail. The 50-year-old singer was convicted earlier on Friday and immediately taken into custody by the Punjab Police.
"I have been granted bail. We will appeal in higher court," Daler Mehndi told reporters outside court.
Daler Mehndi and his brother, Shamsher Singh, had been accused of illegally sending people abroad disguised as members of his troupe by charging hefty "passage money."
The Mehndi brothers had allegedly taken two troupes in 1998 and 1999 during which ten persons were taken to the US as group members and were "dropped off" illegally.
Daler Mehndi, on a trip to the US in the company of an actress, had allegedly "dropped off" three girls at San Francisco.
Both brothers took another troupe to the US in October 1999 in the company of some other actors during which three boys were "dropped off" at New Jersey.
Soon after the Patiala Police registered a case against Daler Mehndi and Shamsher Singh, 35 more complaints came up levelling charges of fraud against the two brothers.
The complaints had alleged that two brothers had taken "passage money" from them to help them migrate to the US "illegally", but had failed to do so.
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