Musician Meesha Shafi has reportedly filed a Rs 2 billion defamation lawsuit against Pakistani actor and singer Ali Zafar in Lahore for causing ‘mental torture and agony’. Previously, the court had dismissed Meesha’s case against Ali.
As per a report in Dawn, “It is prayed that the defendant (Zafar) be permanently restrained from making any further defamatory statement against the plaintiff (Shafi).”
“Moreover, it has caused mental agony and anguish to the plaintiff and for which [the] defendant is now liable to pay damages,” it added.
According to the reports in Dawn, Meesha Shafi’s team had sent a legal notice to Ali for defamation in May.
Ali submitted Rs 1bn damages suit against Meesha for accusing him of sexual harassment. Currently, the case is underway in session courts in Lahore. Ali also took legal action after Shafi accused him of harassing her “on more than two occasions”.
In April, Zafar had taken to his Twitter account that Meesha’s suit alleging sexual harassment had been dismissed. He wrote on Twitter: “Meesha Shafi’s case against me has been dismissed alongside the appeal made against the dismissal. The case in the court is my case against her to pay for damages that her false statement has caused me, which naturally she is trying to run away from. I have also filed a case against all the fake and other accounts being used to run a campaign against me on social media. I have been quiet about all this for a year while thousands of disgusting tweets were posted against me, like a campaign every time a big event comes. But it’s time to expose the truth via due process of law for which I urge the FIA (Federal Investigation Agency) to take strict legal action. And a prayer to our respected courts to decide the matter at earliest for which I would like everyone to join me in asking Miss Shafi to come to the court. #FaceTheCourtMeeshaShafi.”
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Ali Zafar, who made his acting debut in Bollywood with a satire film Tere Bin Laden in 2010, has appeared in several Hindi films, including Mere Brother Ki Dulhan, Chashme Baddoor, and Dear Zindagi. He has also received five Lux Style Awards and a Filmfare Award nomination
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