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Mohali Court awards life imprisonment to Pastor Bajinder Singh in a 2018 sexual harassment case.
Pastor Bajinder Singh awarded life imprisonment in 2018 sexual harassment case.
A Mohali court on Tuesday awarded life imprisonment to Pastor Bajinder Singh in a 2018 rape case. The development came after the court, last week, pronounced the Pastor guilty in connection to the case.
The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) Vikrant Kumar pronounced the verdict, news agency PTI reported.
Reacting to the verdict, the victim in the case said, “He (Bajinder) is a psycho and will do the same offense after coming out of jail, so I want him to stay in prison. A lot of girls (victims) have won today. I request that DGP ensure our security since there is a possibility of attacks on us.”
The 42-year-old Singh, who became popular as the “Yeshu Yeshu prophet”, was lodged in the Patiala jail and was pronounced guilty on March 28 under sections 376 (rape), 323 (punishment for voluntary causing hurt) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.
The punishment was announced in relation to the case filed against him in 2018 by a woman at the Zirakpur police station in Mohali. The complainant had alleged that Bajinder Singh lured her by promising to take her abroad.
She accused him of raping her at his residence in Sector 63 in Mohali. She further alleged that he made a video of it and had threatened her to post the video on social media if she did not agree to his demands.
Notably, before the pronouncement of the verdict, tight security arrangements were made at the court complex to maintain the law and order situation.
Another FIR Against Pastor Bajinder Singh
The controversial self-styled Christian preacher recently grabbed the headlines after he was booked on charges of sexual harassment based on a complaint by a 22-year-old woman on February 28.
A three-member special investigation team was also formed to probe the charges against him and the Punjab State Women Commission had taken suo-motu notice of the matter.
A few days back, a video was going viral on social media showing Singh arguing and throwing a bunch of papers at the woman, before slapping her. According to PTI, the video was dated February 14. The police booked him for assault.
Who Is Pastor Bajinder Singh?
A Haryanvi Jat, Bajinder Singh, has a controversial past. Singh got converted to Christianity about a decade back while he was in jail in a murder case. He became a self-styled preacher in 2012, practising “miracle healing” and claiming to cure fatal diseases.
In 2018, Singh was arrested at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International airport in an alleged rape case filed against him while he was flying to London.
The self-styled Christian preacher runs two churches, The Church of Glory and Wisdom at Tajpur in Jalandhar and another in Majri in Mohali.
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Punjab, India, India