LAHORE: Actor-cum-singer Ali Zafar has asked a sessions court to reject a plea of fellow singer Meesha Shafi for her cross examination thr...
LAHORE: Actor-cum-singer Ali Zafar has asked a sessions court to reject a plea of fellow singer Meesha Shafi for her cross examination through a video link from North American nation in an exceedingly defamation suit he has been following against her for levelling “false” allegations of harassment.
Shafi had requested the court for her video-link cross examination as she and her husband were residing in North American nation and it absolutely was terribly troublesome and impractical for them to travel West Pakistan for the legal method.
In response to her plea, as directed by the court, Zafar rejects the assertions created by her to hunt permission for interrogatory through video link.
He says the plea of ‘unnecessary cost’ taken by the litigant was false and idle.
Zafar states that he has already consented in-tuned all the travel expenses of the litigant ANd had no objection if the court passes an order to deposit constant to its satisfaction.
He conjointly queries the Covid-19 ground taken by Shafi whereas seeking video-link arrangement, expression the pandemic scenario is currently in restraint throughout the globe and at the moment there aren't any travel restrictions.
The litigant contends that the litigant filed a false and light-headed application solely to abuse the method of law, that amounts to disobeying the order gone along the Supreme Court whereby directions are given to each parties to refrain from filing supernumerary applications to prolong the proceedings of the trial.
Urging the court to dismiss the plea of Meesha Shafi, Ali Zafar pleads that the applying for video link isn't wrongfully even.
The court wanted arguments from either side within the matter on Nov five.
Earlier, the counsel for Ali Zafar conjointly conducted partial cross examination of senior actor island Hameed, the mother of Shafi.
Responding to queries of the plaintiff’s counsel, Ms Hameed aforesaid it absolutely was correct that she wasn't AN witness to the alleged incidents of harassment quoted by her girl.
However, the actor aforesaid she believed her girl as “she ne'er told a lie”.
The cross examination are resumed on succeeding hearing
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