Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Nawaz Sharif and Chief Minister Punjab have sent legal notices worth Rs10 billion each to Younis Habib under the defamation act, Express News 24/7 reported on Tuesday.
Habib had claimed that he gave hefty amounts to Nawaz and his brother Shahbaz on behalf of intelligence agencies.
The notices, served through famous legal firm Cornelius, Lane and Mufti Advocates and Solicitors, stated that Sharif brothers are respectable citizens of the country.
It further stated that Habib tried to conduct a media trial of Nawaz and Shahbaz by levelling false and slanderous allegations against them, just to defame them in public.
Denying all the accusations made by Habib, Shahbaz Sharif had earlier said that the scandal was a part of the many conspiracies being hatched against PML-N.
“Habib changed his stance four times … Commenting on the character of a person like Habib is equal to wasting time,” he had said.
Shahbaz also called the Mehrangate scandal the “biggest lie of the century”.
