Mohali: A Punjab court docket sentenced the self -proclaimed Christian Pastor Bajinder Singh to life imprisonment on Tuesday in a case of rape of 2018. The decision was issued by the district choose and session of the Vikrant Kumar addition, Mohali.
Singh, usually generally known as the ‘Prophet Yeshu Yeshu’, was convicted of sexually assaulting a lady from Zirakpur.
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The Courtroom of District Choose and Extra Classes (ADSJ) Vikrant Kumar pronounced the decision, discovering it responsible on March 28 underneath sections 376 (rape), 323 (voluntarily injured) and 506 (felony intimidation).
The Particular Choose Courtroom condemned Pastor Bajinder underneath sections 376, 323 and 506, which led to its instant custody and switch to the Patiala jail.
The court docket acquitted the remaining defendants, Akbar Bhatti, Rajesh Chaudhary, Jatinder Kumar, Sitar Ali and Sandoep aka Pehlwan, owed to an absence of proof, whereas one other defendant, Shaa Singh, died in the course of the trial. Many supporters of Pastor Bajinder gathered outdoors the court docket complicated, however the police prevented them from getting into.
Based on circumstances stories, Zirakpur police recorded a case in opposition to Pastor Bajinder Singh and 6 different defendants, together with Akbar Bhatti, Rajesh Chaudhary, Sucha Singh, Jatinder Kumar, Sitar Ali and Sandeep aka Pehlwan, primarily based on the criticism of a sufferer. The fees have been offered in sections 376, 420, 354, 294, 323, 506, 148 and 149 of the CPI.
The sufferer alleged in her police report that she met Pastor Bajinder for the primary time in a street restaurant after which started attending her prayer conferences.
Pastor Bajinder obtained private details about her, and regularly started to comply with her directions.
In September 2017, he known as her a street restaurant in Zirakpur and requested her to convey her passport.
She fulfilled, and he took her to her condo. There, he informed him that he would quickly journey to the UK and promised to take her.
Beneath the pretext of facilitating his journey overseas, he allegedly established bodily relationships along with her in opposition to her will and recorded an obscene video after leaving her unconscious.
Subsequently, Pastor Bajinder demanded a big sum of cash for the journey overseas, threatening to filter the video if he didn’t meet. He continued to take advantage of it underneath coercion, utilizing the specter of making the video public.
(The sufferer’s identification has not been revealed to guard his privateness in line with the directives of the Supreme Courtroom on circumstances associated to sexual aggression)