Chandigarh: Punjab Police on October 8 raided the residential and official premises of noted Punjabi singer Daler Mehndi in New Delhi in connection with a cheating and fraud case registered against him and four others, including his brother Shamsher Singh, who is in police custody.

The police party from Patiala also raided the premises, in three different places of Delhi, owned by three others - Tejinder Laddi, Surender Singh and Harcharan Singh, who have also been named in the First Information Report (FIR).

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Patiala Paramraj Singh told reporters in Chandigarh that a computer and some records have been seized from the Connaught Place office of Daler Mehndi. His locker in a bank in Delhi has been frozen, he added.

Singh said that as Mehndi had levelled "false and baseless" allegations of Patiala Police demanding Rs 1.50 crore, the case has been transferred to Sangrur Police.

He said that 11 more complaints have been received raising the total number of complaints to 27. Two alleged victims from Canada had also approached him with similar complaints, he said adding that they had been asked to make a formal complaint.

Shamsher Singh, Mehndi and others have been charged with cheating people on the promise of taking them abroad as part of their troupe.

The case was registered on the complaint of one Bakshish Singh, a resident of Belwara in Chandigarh district, who alleged that he had paid Rs 13 lakh out of the Rs 15 lakh demanded for sending him abroad. But he was not sent as promised.

PTI