The Sindh Superior Court granted the bail on Thursday to the film producer, writer and director Jamshed Mahmood, also known as Jami, and declared the two -year prison sentence that he gave him a vacuum of the local court.
During the hearing, Jami’s lawyer, lawyer Hafiz Muhammad Yahya, informed SHC that the additional district of the South and the session judge had given the filmmaker two years in prison and a fine in a direct complaint.
The lawyer said that the crime for which he was sentenced to Jami was bail. The lower court did not complete the legal requirements when delivering the sentence, he said, arguing that the accusations against Jamshed were false and without foundation.
The lawyer prayed SHC to declare the null and null sentence.
SHC granted the bond against a guarantee bonus by value of RS50,000 and annulled the sentence imposed by the lower court.
According to Jami’s lawyer, the filmmaker will be released from prison today.
On February 18, 2019, the musical director Sohail Javed filed a demand for defamation against Jami for a Facebook post. Javed accused Jami of defame him on social networks by sharing a letter from a woman who claimed to have been sexually assaulted by a “Musical director and director of TVC” at a music festival.
Jami’s state of Facebook, which included the letter, went viral, and Javed’s legal notice mentioned that the letter had not been shared by anyone before Jami published it.
While Jami did not explicitly appoint Sohail in his publication, he shared a screenshot of another victim’s account, who had Javed’s name.
