The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has requested a trial court to start legal proceedings against singer Meesha Shafi and eight others for running a smear campaign against Ali Zafar.
The #metoo campaign against Ali Zafar was launched in April 2018 when Meesha Shafi alleged Ali Zafar of sexual harassment on Twitter. Joined by several artists and celebrities, the campaign soon went national. It caused severe damage to Ali’s career as he lost many singing and acting contracts.
In November 2018, the Teefa in Trouble star moved to the FIA Lahore’s cybercrime wing against the unceasing vilification on social media platforms. He told FIA that certain accounts were posting ‘threats and defamatory material’ against him.
The FIR had mentioned that the smear campaign was pushed with the help of fake accounts, all linked to Meesha.
On Tuesday, FIA’s cybercrime wing Lahore submitted an interim challan before the trial court’s special judge, stating that Shafi and eight others nominated in the case “have been found guilty in this case as per available oral and documentary evidence.”
The FIA contended that Shafi failed to produce even a single witness before the court to support her allegations against Zafar, which proves that her allegations were ‘defamatory’ and ‘false.’
“A Twitter account @nehasaigol1, which posted 3,000 defamatory tweets against my family and me only in one year, [was] created 50 days before Meesha’s allegations of sexual harassment,” he had told the FIA.
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