Ali Zafar files Rs1 billion suit against Meesha Shafi
Actor-singer Ali Zafar has filed a defamation suit in a district court in Lahore, Pakistan against singer Meesha Shafi, who accused him of sexual harassment two months ago on social media.
The suit claims damages of Rs1 billion (Dh3.67 billion). Filed under the Defamation Ordinance 2002 on Saturday, Zafar has said in the notice that Shafi had caused “tremendous injury” to his “reputation, goodwill, livelihood” through “false, slanderous and defamatory” allegations, according to Geo News.
“As the defamatory statements are patently false, it can only be concluded that this malicious campaign has been launched against the plaintiff as part of a motivated conspiracy to tarnish the plaintiff’s good image through making false accusations,” the suit reads.
Shafi took to Twitter in April to accuse Zafar of physically harassing her on “more than one occasion”.
Zafar denied all allegations.