Sonia Deol's Father Jailed For False Translations At Court

[BiggChan]

Sonial Deol's (Jaswinder Sidhu) father:-

BUNGED UP!

News of the World's fake sheikh catches his 250th villain

By Neville Thurlbeck, 24/01/2010

A CORRUPT councillor has become the 250TH crook jailed thanks to News of the World journalist Mazher Mahmood.

Our unflinching Investigations Editor snared lowlife villain Suresh Kumar when he demanded a £10,000 bung to pass a planning application.

The 44-year-old Tory was found guilty of corruption and caged for 12 months - plus banned from holding any public office for five years - on Monday.

Passing sentence, the judge at Southwark Crown Court, South London, said: "He was consumed by his own ambition."

Also jailed was court interpreter Baldev Sidhu, 62, who caused Kumar's first trial to collapse when he made a FALSE translation of the crook's Punjabi conversations on our secret tapes.

Sidhu - the dad of BBC Breakfast presenter Sonia Deol - was sentenced to eight months in jail.

Last night a police spokesman said: "We are extremely grateful to the News of the World for bringing this matter to light and providing us with essential evidence.

"Kumar was involved in serious corruption and would not have not been brought to justice if it were not for your work."

To trap him, our man Mazher - who has famously posed as a fake sheikh to dupe many of his targets - pretended to be a business partner of two property developers facing illegal bribe demands.

Power

Kumar, a member of Redbridge Council, Essex, repeated his demands for money to Mazher in a meeting, and crowed: "Brother, the power is in my hands.

"The council is my own, the people are mine."

His and Sidhu's jailings were the latest victories for Mazher, who has caught hundreds of criminals in the last 18 years - from immigrant racketeers and drug dealers to bent cops and corrupt solicitors.

His extraordinary haul is almost enough to fill Dorchester prison, Dorset, which has a capacity of 252.

Mazher said: "It has been very rewarding to bring so many crooks to justice - and I am determined to catch even more."

The businessmen who were told by Kumar to pay up if they wanted their block of flats to get the go-ahead, expressed their gratitude.

Jasbir Bhogal and Raj- winder Rana said: "Kumar made blatant and repeated demands for cash followed by threats.

"We knew the News of the World would be the right place to go to expose this man, to shame him and get us justice."

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/695941/BUNGED-UP-Fake-sheikh-Mazher-Mahmood-gets-250th-villain-Suresh-Kumar.html

[Paneer Monster]

I should do a personal journey documentary about her dad in prison. i should also include an interview with Mazher Mahmood allowing him to give a full account of his side of the story.

and if you watch the documentry you might get to know my real name!... paneer monster isnt my real name by the way hahaha..

Please excuse my insensitivity.

[BiggChan]

Redbridge News

A former Redbridge councillor has been jailed after he was caught red-handed demanding £10,000 to influence planning decisions

3:38pm Tuesday 19th January 2010

By James Ranger »

A DISGRACED former councillor who asked for £10,000 in bribes to influence planning decisions has been jailed after a two month trial.

Suresh Kumar, of Eastern Avenue, Newbury Park, was found guilty of corruption at Southwark Crown Court on Monday (January 19), after it was found he demanded cash from two property developers to ensure planning permission was given to a block of flats.

However, the men contacted a national newspaper which arranged for secret filming to take place as as part of a sting on his corrupt practises.

The jury at Southwark Crown Court was shown video footage of Mr Kumar, 44, meeting the developers and saying that he could influence the council if he was paid.

He was sentenced to 12 months in prison and disqualified from holding a public office for five years.

In November 2004, Mr Kumar demanded the cash in exchange for which he said he would influence the council to give the go ahead for an apartment block in Green Lane, Goodmayes.

An early corruption trial collapsed in April 2008 after it emerged a translator, Baldev Sidhu, 62, had bought tickets from Mr Kumar travel company.

Punjabi-speaking translator Sidhu, of Portland Road, Birmingham, was jailed for eight months after being found guilty of lying under oath during the earlier trial.

Mr Kumar, who was a member of the Conservative group until he was suspended following media coverage of the allegations, was elected to Redbridge Council in 2003.

He later became a member of the regulatory committee, which seeks to resolve contentious planning disputes.

Mr Kumar stood for election again in 2006 as independent candidate, but without success.

He was cleared of a second count of corruption, which jurors could not reach a decision on a third.

http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/rbnews/4859273.REDBRIDGE__Disgraced_former_councillor_jailed_for___10k_corruption/

LOL.

Maybe the translation was his own personal story instead of what was on the tapes.

[Paneer Monster]

maby her dad should change his sikh name....

"he may have started out as a sikh but he didnt end as a sikh let me tell you" haha

[BiggChan]

Strange the BBC haven't reported this.

[Paneer Monster]

i remember sidhuwalley, he was rather a no nonsence fellow... a peoples man... very charasmatic...

i recall a meeting where my toe touched his contract papers...

he and his team were always walking around armed with biros and writing pads.., he threw me a deadly look like he was going to use them on me. rather intimidating ...

hahaha

[chatanga]

lol. maybe some one burned his children, sorry his wrongly tranlsated scripts i mean.

[BiggChan]

Trial has been reported a while back on the BBC although for some strange reason <_< I can't find any reference to Sidhu on their site.

Some more details from the trial (all in the course of thorough research)......

Ex-councillor Suresh Kumar on trial for corruption

26 November 2009

A former Conservative councillor convinced an expert witness to alter evidence against him while on trial for corruptly demanding £10,000 in bribes, a court heard today.

Suresh Kumar, 44, of Eastern Avenue, Newbury Park, enlisted the help of Punjabi-speaking interpreter Baldev Sidhu, 61, to change transcripts of secretly taped conversations during the trial last year, jurors heard.

Kumar, who was elected to Redbridge Council in 2003, had allegedly demanded £10,000 from property developers who needed planning permission.

Southwark Crown Court heard Kumar asked one of the men to join the local Conservative association having just demanded the first payoff in November 2004.

Kumar later told members of the local Conservative association there was a "possibility of a £10,000 donation" to top up the party coffers, it was said.

Jurors heard during Kumar's bribery trial he enlisted the help of Sidhu, an expert defence witness, to alter the evidence against him.

Kumar is now facing a string of corruption charges relating to his alleged cash demands.

He and Sidhu are also accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice and doing acts intended to pervert the course of justice.

Sidhu is also accused of perjury for lying under oath when he said he was on the National Register of Interpreters.

Prosecutor Thomas Kark told the court: "This case is about dishonesty, about bribery, about perverting the proper course of justice and lying in court.

"The first part concerns allegations of corruption against Suresh Kumar and they arise when he was a Conservative councillor in Redbridge in 2004.

"The second part of the case arises subsequently when in 2008 Mr Kumar was tried at the this very court and he called Mr Sidhu as an expert interpreter of some secretly taped conversations which had taken place in the language of Punjabi.

"It became apparent during Mr Sidhu's evidence that he was telling lies about a number of facts including the circumstances in which his expert reports had come to be written."

Mr Kark said the costly jury trial then had to be abandoned.

Jurors heard Jasbir Bhogal and Rajwinder Rana were seeking planning permission to turn a derelict petrol station in Green Lane, Goodmayes, into flats when they approached Kumar back in 2004.

Kumar was sitting on the regulatory committee and tried to persuade Mr Bhogal, who had helped him during his election to pay up, it is said.

Mr Kark said Mr Kumar ignored the "councillors' code of conduct" by asking for the money.

Kumar denies three counts of corruption alleging he "did corruptly solicit for himself a fee or reward for assisting in the processing of a planning application" between November 11 and December 12, 2004.

He and Sidhu, of Portland Road, Birmingham, both deny conspiring "together, to do a series of acts, namely altering the transcripts of taped conversations with intent to pervert the course of justice" on or before April 14, last year and deny doing acts intending to pervert the course of justice.

Sidhu alone further denies once charge of perjury by saying he was on the National Register of Interpreters and for lying about a report he had written for the case and about a witness statement he had made for the case.

The trial continues.

http://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/content/redbridge/recorder/news/story.aspx?brand=RECOnline&category=newsIlford&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsilford&itemid=WeED26%20Nov%202009%2014%3A43%3A41%3A610

[BiggChan]

I think the outcome of this case should also bring into question the translation services Mr. Sidhu has provided in any other cases especially being as he was a regular at the Birmingham Courts.

[Khalasthan86]

I should do a personal journey documentary about her dad in prison. i should also include an interview with Mazher Mahmood allowing him to give a full account of his side of the story.

and if you watch the documentry you might get to know my real name!... paneer monster isnt my real name by the way hahaha..

Please excuse my insensitivity.

Lol, good one.