Singer Daler Mehndi sentenced to 2 years in jail in human trafficking case, granted bail

Minutes after Punjabi pop singer Daler Mehndi was sentenced to two years in prison in a 2003 human trafficking case, he was granted bail by Patiala court as well.

Daler and his brother, Shamsher Singh, had been accused of illegally sending people abroad disguised



as members of his troupe by charging hefty 'passage money.'

It had been alleged that Mehndi brothers had taken two troupes in 1998 and 1999 during the course of which 10 persons were taken to the US as group members and were 'dropped off' illegally.