HONEYPREET’S TALE FROM DERA TO JAIL

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Started directing, acting in Singh’s movies in in 2015.

Since the dera head was convicted on August 25, she was absconding and police put her on top of their list of 43 people wanted in connection with the violence and riots that broke out after the conviction. She filed anticipatory bail petition on Sept 25, but Delhi HC rejected it and asked her to surrender. Her former husband publicly accused her and dera chief of having illicit relations and said their “father-daughter relationship” was a sham to fool followers. In TV interview on Tuesday, she said she had not been absconding, but coming to terms with dera chief’s conviction. She also refuted allegations that she had left the country or that he had sexually abused her.

She was arrested soon after her TV appearance from the Zirakpur-patiala highway in Punjab.