Asks for an apology and to pay Rs1 billion in damages
Islamabad (Pakistan Point News – 23rd June, 2018) Pakistani singer and actor Ali Zafar has sent a legal notice to co-artist Meesha Shafi for her sexual harassment allegations.
The Teefa in Trouble star filed a defamation suit in a court in Lahore through his lawyer, asking for an apology from Meesha Shafi for levelling baseless allegations and pay Rs1 billion in damages.
He had earlier sent a legal notice of Rs100 million to Meesha Shafi for making false sexual harassment accusations against. According to the notice, a defamation suit had to be filed against Meesha upon her failure to issue an apology to Ali on electronic media within two weeks.
Meesha had also sent a legal notice to Ali Zafar in her reply to his notice. The notice was reportedly sent by Meesha’s legal team. The notice stated that the allegations made on Ali are true and there is no plot behind them. Meesha said in her notice that Ali harassed her at work. The notice demanded the singer to apologize to Meesha, confess to his mistakes and take back his legal notice.
Singer Meesha Shafi had alleged her colleague Ali Zafar of sexual harassment in a tweet last month.
Meesha said that she is sharing this because she believes that by speaking out about her own experience of sexual harassment, she will break the culture of silence that permeates through our society.
Using the #Metoo hashtag, Shafi added that it is not easy to speak out but it is harder to stay silent. “My conscience will not allow it anymore,” she added.
Ali Zafar had broken his silence on the matter when he had categorically denied all claims of harassment lodged against him.
