The Patiala police have asked singer Daler Mehndi to provide details of 5,000 people he has illegally taken abroad during the last five years.

Daler, who joined the investigations in the human trafficking case on the directive of the Delhi high court, has denied the allegation.

The allegation is the figment of imagination, his advocate Ravinder Kumar told rediff.com from Patiala on Tuesday.

"Till yesterday we were demanding a CBI investigation. Now the FBI and Interpol will have to assist CBI," Kumar said.

He maintained that Daler's life was under threat. "You saw what happened at Patiala when Daler came to join investigations on Monday. Thousands of people were making threatening gestures and threw eggs and other things on Daler's car," he said.

Bakshish Singh, a resident of Patiala, had filed a first information report alleging that Daler, his brother Shamsher Mehndi and a few others had duped him for Rs18 lakh. He said he had paid them the money in order to go abroad with Daler's troupe.

The Patiala police have already arrested Shamsher.