April 1, 2025 12:08 pm is
April 1, 2025 12:08 pm is
A Mohali courtroom sentenced a self -denominated pastor on Tuesday, Bajinder Singh, 42, to life imprisonment till demise in a case of rape registered in opposition to him within the metropolis of Zirakpur in 2018.
The extra decide of the district and the classes (ADSJ) Vikrant Gupta delivered the trial as Bajinder, which runs the Church of Glory and Knowledge in Mohali, was introduced from the Patiala jail and produced earlier than him within the midst of strict safety.
The life imprisonment till demise means a life imprisonment with out the potential for probation or launch, which implies that the person will stay imprisoned till pure demise.
Bajinder was convicted below sections 376 (violation), 323 (punishment for voluntarily injured) and 506 (legal intimidation) of the Indian Prison Code on March 28 and despatched to the Patiala jail.
5 different defendants within the case, Pastor Jatinder, Pastor Akbar, Sattar Ali and Sandeep Pehalwan, had been acquitted final Friday.
The case dates again to 2018, when a lady from Zirakpur filed a grievance, claiming that Bajinder attacked her sexually below the pretext of serving to her journey overseas. She stated he recorded an obscene video of her. She claimed that the defendant had threatened to publish the video on social networks if she didn’t agree together with her calls for. Bajinder was on bail within the case.
The Mohali courtroom issued an unpaid order in opposition to Bajinder on March three.
On February 28 of final month, Bajinder was employed by the positions of sexual assault and harassment in Kapurthala, based mostly on a grievance of a 22 -year -old lady. Kapurthala police registered a FIR below sections 354-A (sexual harassment), 354-D (harassment) and 506 (legal intimidation) of the Indian Prison Code (CPI) on the Kapurthala Metropolis Police station.