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Bail expires, police on the look out for Daler

PATIALA NOV. 2. Patiala police is looking for Punjabi pop star, Daler Mehndi, whose interim anticipatory bail expired yesterday, in connection with a human trafficking case and have sent four teams to trace him.

A watch is being kept on relatives and friends whom the singer may contact, the police sources said here today.

Since his anticipatory bail has expired and the fact that he did not cooperate during investigations, the police can arrest him, the sources said.

The police have sent teams to various places, including two farmhouses of Daler in Delhi, to look for him, they said adding that one party has gone to Bihar as the singer had spent a large part of his life in Patna. His wife, Daljit Kaur, is also said to be from Bihar, the sources said.

The singer was questioned for seven hours on Monday and for four hours the next day in the immigration visa case against him, his brother Shamsher and three others.

After that Daler has failed to appear before the Patiala Police and is not traceable.

Daler's lawyer, Ravinder Kumar, told PTI by telephone from Delhi that he had no information about the singer and was not in touch with him.

He said the singer's anticipatory bail plea before the Delhi High Court is to come up tomorrow.

Punjab Police are also in touch with their counterparts in Mumbai and other places for any information on Daler, the sources said.

Daler had appeared before the four-member Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by SP (Headquarter) R.L. Monga, on Monday and Tuesday.

Thereafter, he failed to appear citing ill health.

He also failed to appear before DIG, P.S. Sahota, who is probing the singer's allegation that Patiala police had demanded a huge sum of money from him to keep his name out of the case. --PTI

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