{"id":6673,"date":"2021-03-16T08:44:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T08:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=6673"},"modified":"2021-03-16T08:45:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T08:45:38","slug":"meesha-shafi-not-to-be-jailed-for-three-years-for-criminal-defamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2021\/03\/16\/meesha-shafi-not-to-be-jailed-for-three-years-for-criminal-defamation\/","title":{"rendered":"Meesha Shafi not to be jailed for three years for criminal defamation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to what you may be seeing on social media, no court has given any verdict in the Meesha Shafi and Ali Zafar legal disputes, in either party&#8217;s favour.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6675\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Meesha-Shafi-not-to-be-jailed-for-three-years-for-criminal-defamation-rapidnews.jpeg\" alt=\"Meesha-Shafi-not-to-be-jailed-for-three-years-for-criminal-defamation-rapidnews\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Meesha-Shafi-not-to-be-jailed-for-three-years-for-criminal-defamation-rapidnews.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Meesha-Shafi-not-to-be-jailed-for-three-years-for-criminal-defamation-rapidnews-300x150.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Meesha-Shafi-not-to-be-jailed-for-three-years-for-criminal-defamation-rapidnews-1024x512.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Meesha-Shafi-not-to-be-jailed-for-three-years-for-criminal-defamation-rapidnews-768x384.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shafi has become the victim of a disinformation campaign on social media deeming her &#8220;guilty&#8221;, which seems to have stemmed from a report\u00a0by British tabloid\u00a0<em>The Daily Mail<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Pakistani singer whose accusations that a pop star groped her sparked the country&#8217;s #MeToo movement faces three years in jail for &#8216;criminal defamation&#8217; over damage to his reputation,&#8221; reads the article.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CMcSFPmhLPs\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; 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border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CMcSFPmhLPs\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Meesha Shafi (@meesha.shafi)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\nMany people on social media and several Indian media outlets, including\u00a0<em>Times of India<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>ZeeNews<\/em>, took that to mean that a verdict had been handed out in Zafar&#8217;s favour and Shafi had been handed a sentence \u2014 but that isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n<p>Shafi addressed the reports on Monday evening on her social media and shared a screenshot of a\u00a0<em>Samaa Digital<\/em>\u00a0report that debunked the &#8220;three years in prison&#8221; headlines. \u201cSpeaking up is even harder than being harassed,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why so many suffer in silence. Sending strength and solidarity to all those who speak up and risk their present to make way for a better future for all,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Shafi\u2019s lawyer Asad Jamal\u00a0via his Twitter account set the record straight, calling it fake news.<\/p>\n<p>He clarified that the trial court had not sentenced Shafi to three years in jail. &#8220;Let there be no confusion that no such verdict has been passed by any court in Pakistan,&#8221; he said in his statement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"story__content overflow-hidden mt-4 pt-4 \" dir=\"auto\">\n<p>&#8220;It is ridiculous how the news media have jumped to spreading the fake news, misleading their viewers and readers by relying on an imagined reaction from my client to the imagined court verdict,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Shafi in 2018 accused fellow singer Ali Zafar of\u00a0harassment in a Twitter post\u00a0\u2014 an allegation he has vehemently denied. Both of them have filed cases against each other in different courts with Zafar instituting a defamation suit against Shafi for accusing him of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>On March 11,\u00a0Shafi was summoned by a Lahore judicial magistrate\u00a0in the case registered against her by Zafar under the Prevention Against Cybercrime Act. He has accused her and several other people, including rapper Ali Gul Pir and actor Iffat Omer, of running a &#8220;smear campaign&#8221; against him on social media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is with ref to the fake news claiming that my client Meesha Shafi has been sentenced to 3 yrs imprisonment.<br \/>\nNo such verdict has been passed by trial court in the frivolous criminal defamation case instituted by Ali Zafar against several women.<br \/>\nRead complete statement below <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/49vRSXtvFe\">pic.twitter.com\/49vRSXtvFe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Asad Jamal (@LegalPolitical) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LegalPolitical\/status\/1371451010925879298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nA legal officer for the FIA submitted a complete investigation report at the hearing which said the investigation established that all the suspects, including Shafi, posted serious\/direct allegations and defamatory\/derogatory content on social media against Zafar.<\/p>\n<p>However, the FIA submitting an investigation report does not mean the case has been decided.<\/p>\n<p>A verdict has yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, earlier in January, the Supreme Court\u00a0accepted for regular hearing\u00a0the plea of Shafi, seeking a direction that the provincial ombudsperson for protection of harassment against women at workplace should rehear her grievance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"js-social-fb social social--iframe float-left pr-2 \"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to what you may be seeing on social media, no court has given 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