Famous Punjabi singer Daler Mehndi was today convicted and sentenced to two years in jail in a 15-year-old ‘Kabootarbazi’  (human trafficking) case he was arrested and then released on bail. A court in Patiala today convicted and sentenced Mehndi for two years in jail who was present in court in a case registered against him and others in 2003 on charges of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy. He was immediately arrested and later released on bail by the court. Daler Mehndi and brother Shamsher Singh (now deceased) and two others Bulbul Mehta and Dhian Singh had been accused of illegally sending people abroad disguised as members of his troupe by taking money. As they have taken two troupes in 1998 and 1999 to USA in which they reportedly took ten people including three girls who were left their only.
It was alleged that on his tour to the USA in 1998 with Karishma Kapoor and her mother Babita, Daler had taken three girls (Priya, Meenu Behn and Nimu) all belonging to Gujarat and left them there in San Francisco.

Famous Punjabi singer Daler Mehndi was today convicted and sentenced to two years in jail in a 15-year-old ‘Kabootarbazi’  (human trafficking) case he was arrested and then released on bail. A court in Patiala today convicted and sentenced Mehndi for two years in jail who was present in court in a case registered against him and others in 2003 on charges of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy. He was immediately arrested and later released on bail by the court. Daler Mehndi and brother Shamsher Singh (now deceased) and two others Bulbul Mehta and Dhian Singh had been accused of illegally sending people abroad disguised as members of his troupe by taking money. As they have taken two troupes in 1998 and 1999 to USA in which they reportedly took ten people including three girls who were left their only.
It was alleged that on his tour to the USA in 1998 with Karishma Kapoor and her mother Babita, Daler had taken three girls (Priya, Meenu Behn and Nimu) all belonging to Gujarat and left them there in San Francisco.