Comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli charged with sex offences

Scottish comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli has been arrested and charged successful transportation with "non-recent" intersexual offences.

The 54-year-old has been released and is owed to look successful tribunal astatine a aboriginal date, constabulary confirmed.

Mr Kohli has presented respective programmes for the BBC and different broadcasters, and was runner up successful the 2006 variation of Celebrity MasterChef.

He was besides a contestant connected Celebrity Big Brother successful 2018.

A spokesperson for the unit said a study of the circumstances had been submitted to the procurator fiscal.

Mr Kohli's apprehension follows an probe by the Times which described however respective radical had raised concerns astir him.

Police Scotland confirmed past period it was investigating the allegations.