Sindh High Court on Thursday awarded bail to film producer, writer and director Jamshed Mahmood, also known as Jami, and declared the two-year prison, which was handed over to him by a local court invalid.
During the hearing, Jamis lawyer, lawyer Hafiz Muhammad Yahya, SHC assessed that South additional district and session judge had handed over the filmmaker two years in prison and a fine on a direct complaint.
The lawyer claimed that the offense to which Jami was convicted could be honest. The lower law did not have legal claim when he set aside the verdict, he said, arguing that the allegations against Jamshed were false and baseless.
The lawyer asked SHC to declare the verdict invalid.
SHC awarded a bail against a bail bond worth the RS50,000 and anulated the judgment taken by the lower right.
According to Jami’s lawyer, the filmmaker will be released from prison today.
On February 18, 2019, Music Director Sohail Javed filed a defamation law case against Jami over a Facebook post. Javed accused Jami of honoring him on social media by sharing a letter from a woman who claimed to have been sexually assaulted by a “music video and TVC director” at a music festival.
Jami’s Facebook status, which included the letter, was viral, and Javed’s legal announcement mentioned that the letter had not been shared by anyone until Jami published it.
While Jami did not explicitly named Sohail in his post, he shared a screenshot from another victim’s account that had Javed’s name in it.
