Meesha Shafi, the singer-cum-actor, has moved to Supreme Court with a request to overturn Lahore High Court (LHC)’s and the provincial ombudsman\u2019s decision dismissing her sexual harassment complaint against Ali Zafar.<\/p>\n
Previously, Punjab\u2019s ombudsman had rejected her appeal, saying it could not be entertained under the law regarding harassment of women at a place of work because she was not an employee of Ali Zafar. On October 11, the LHC had also upheld the ombudsman\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n
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Meesha Shafi Files Rs 2 Billion Counter Suit Against Ali Zafar<\/a><\/p>\n However, Meesha has now knocked at the doors of the top Court, seeking orders to set aside the previous two decisions against her.<\/p>\n According to Meesha, the alleged harassment took place when she was rehearsing for a concert at Ali Zafar\u2019s studio in 2018. Meesha said she was contracted to perform two songs with Ali Zafar at the show.<\/p>\n ALSO READ<\/p>\n Meesha Shafi Reveals Why She Had to Go Public Against Ali Zafar<\/a><\/p>\n In turn, Ali Zafar had filed a defamation suit against her, demanding financial compensation for damaging his reputation. While Meesha\u2019s pleas have been dismissed, Ali Zafar\u2019s defamation case is still pending at the LHC.<\/p>\n In her petition, moved through Khawaja Ahmad Hosain, the singer has pleaded that her case be remanded back to the ombudsman with instruction of retrial under the Workplace Act of 2010.<\/p>\n ALSO READ<\/p>\n Ali Zafar Uses MAO College Lecturer’s Suicide to Speak on Misuse of #MeToo<\/a><\/p>\n She contended that since she was contracted by a third party, and was asked to rehearse at a particular place, the said law was still applicable.<\/p>\n The petition argued that since she was in a contract, which is legally binding, she should be considered as an \u2018employee\u2019 of the said party, just like Ali Zafar. And, the studio where she was asked to rehearse fell within the definition of a workplace under the 2010 law.<\/p>\n She requested the Apex Court to direct ombudsman to treat her plea as a harassment complaint at a workplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Meesha Shafi, the singer-cum-actor, has moved to Supreme Court with a request to overturn Lahore High Court (LHC)’s and the provincial ombudsman\u2019s decision dismissing her sexual harassment complaint against Ali Zafar. Previously, Punjab\u2019s ombudsman had rejected her appeal, saying it could not be entertained under the law regarding harassment of women at a place of work because she was not […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":234220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374,2199,1293],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-241993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime","8":"category-featured","9":"category-lollywood"},"wps_subtitle":"In search of justice at the highest levels.","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Meesha-vs-Ali-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Meesha-vs-Ali-758x424.jpg",758,424,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Meesha-vs-Ali.jpg",1000,560,false]},"author_name":"Raza Rizvi","categories_name":["Crime","Featured","Lollywood"],"title_text":"Meesha Shafi Is Going To Supreme Court Against Ali Zafar","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=2374,2199,1293&exclude=241993","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241993"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=241993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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