Did you know who is Sonu Punjaban and why does she deserve the ‘severest punishment’? Here’s all you would like to understand about Sonu Punjaban and her massive prostitution ring. She is the operator of Delhi’s biggest sex racket, has been sentenced to 24 years of jail term. an area court, while sentencing Sonu Punjaban said, she “crossed all limits to be called a lady and deserves the severest punishment.”
When was she arrested?
She was arrested by police several times, but she managed to evade punishment until one among the women working for her came forward and filed a complaint against her. She was first arrested under sections of the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act in 2007. While she got bail within the 2007 case, she was arrested for an equivalent offense in 2008.
April 2011, Delhi Police arrest Sonu after they received a tip-off that she was again spotted indulging in prostitution. Police lead two officers, who posed as customers and laid the trap. The officers then struck an effect on the tout, Raju Sharma, and Sonu for 2 girls.
Police then arrested Sonu, her four associates, and 4 other men during a raid in Mehrauli. Since she had been arrested for an equivalent crime twice before, the police charged her under provisions of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).
She spent a while in jail, but the court had to let her go thanks to a scarcity of evidence against her.
The case, which finally led to her jail term sentence, was initiated against her in 2014 when a woman escaped her captivity and filed a complaint in Najafgarh police headquarters. The girl told the police that she was nearly 13 years old when she was kidnapped in 2013 by a person named Sandeep Bedwal. Since then she had been forced to possess sex with over 12 men, then being sold to Sonu Punjaban, who trained her in Basic English and etiquette to please high-end customers.
Sonu Punjaban had been booked for forcing minor girls into prostitution by Delhi Police. Meanwhile, Police booked Sandeep Bedwal on charges of raping minor girls. Both these charges have been upheld by the Delhi court.
How long will she be in jail?
The Delhi court has convicted Sonu Punjaban under various provisions of the Immoral Traffic Act for trafficking the minor girl and forcing her into prostitution. In one case, she has been sentenced to serve 14 years and in other, she is going to serve 10 years, both these terms are going to be served consecutively, that is, one after the opposite. Her associate Sandeep Bedwal has been found guilty of raping the minor that he will serve 20 years in prison. The court has also provided Rs 7 lakh compensation for the kid.
The dramatic life
Sonu Punjaban not only played an extended cat-and-mouse game with the law before being finally delivered to justice, but she also lived a really dramatic life. Sonu Punjab owned a house in South Delhi’s posh locality Saidullajab and had a prostitution ring that spread across state lines.
Sonu Punjaban changed tracks in life after she fell crazy with gangster Vijay Singh, an in-depth aide of gangster Shri Prakash Shukla. Sonu married Vijay Singh in 2003 but he was gunned down by UP’s STF in Garh Mukteshwar soon after they got married. Her next boyfriend, Deepak, was shot down also in Assam.
According to reports, investigators say she features a fascination for “bad boys” and each man who has are available her life has died.
She is attempted suicide inside Delhi’s Tihar Jail after the Delhi court convicted her last week. She was taken to a hospital after she consumed an excessive amount of pills meant for headaches. She recovered following treatment.
The reel life Punjaban
Richa Chadha’s character Bholi Punjaban in 2013 film ‘Fukrey’ and ‘Fukrey Returns’ was based on Sonu Punjaban.
