Senior Journalist. Chandigarh.
Pastor Bajinder Singh, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in a rape case by a Mohali court, is from Haryana. He was born in a Jat family in Yamunanagar. In the early 2000s, he was sent to jail on murder charges.
He had relations with many political people and officials and the number of people coming to his meetings kept increasing. Bajinder had adopted Christianity in jail itself. After being released, Bajinder Singh started holding prayer meetings in the year 2012.
Bajinder Singh founded the Church of Glory and Wisdom in Tajpur village of Jalandhar in the year 2016. His church has 260 branches across the country. The largest church is in New Chandigarh, Mohali. He claims miraculous healings, thousands of people gather in his meetings. There is also a YouTube channel in the name of Prophet Bajinder Singh on which he has about 37 lakh subscribers. Bajinder Singh also has branches abroad, including America, Israel, Mauritius, Malaysia, Australia. His followers used to call him ‘Papa Ji’.
Bajinder, who calls himself a prophet, claims to cure people from HIV, dumbness and much more. He gained immense popularity from Mere Yashu-Yashu. Pastor Bajinder, founder of ‘The Church of Glory and Wisdom’ in Jalandhar, has been in controversies.
Mohali court pronounced sentence, will remain in jail for the whole life,
Sent wrong messages to woman many times
In the FIR lodged, the woman has said that she joined the team of Bajinder Singh’s church in the year 2017. It has been alleged in the FIR that in the year 2022, the accused started molesting the victim and also sent wrong messages many times. The woman told that in December 2017, she started going to a satsang called Glory of Wisdom Church located in Tajpur village of Jalandhar district, in 2020 she joined the team of this church and came to the notice of Pastor Bajinder. The pastor took her mobile number and started chatting with her, the accused also sent inappropriate messages on the phone several times.
According to the woman, Pastor Bajinder Singh had threatened her that if she told anything about this to anyone, she and her family members would be killed. In the year 2022, Pastor Bajinder Singh tried to hug this woman and touched her indecently. The pastor was caught at Delhi airport when he was going to London, he was acquitted as the charges were not proved. In September 2022, a Delhi family had alleged that Bajinder had asked them for money to treat their cancer-stricken daughter with prayers, but she could not be saved. In the year 2023, the Income Tax Department raided the places related to Bajinder Singh in Jalandhar.
After the pastor was convicted, the victim had alleged that pastor Bajinder Singh is a psycho. If he comes out of jail, he will commit the crime again. That’s why I want him to remain in jail forever.