Chandigarh, April 1 -- A Mohali court on Tuesday awarded life imprisonment to self-declared Christian pastor Bajinder Singh in a 2018 rape case. Additional District and Sessions Judge Vikrant Kumar found the 42-year-old guilty under Sections 376 (rape), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita.

The case originated in 2018 when a woman had alleged that Bajinder had sexually assaulted her at his house in Sector 63, Mohali. The complainant had alleged that Bajinder had promised to help her move abroad but instead had taken her to his house, where he raped her and filmed the act. She also claimed that he threatened to post the video on social media if she complied with his wishes. An FIR w...