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A Lahore sessions court dismissed on Monday a petition filed by actor Meera against a family court's decision rejecting her plea to declare her nikahnama (marriage document) with businessman Attiqur Rehman fabricated.

In a short verdict, Additional District and Sessions Judge Mazhar Hussain dismissed the appeal and upheld the family court's decision. The actor claimed that Rehman prepared a fake nikahnama to grab her property. She denied having any relationship with Rehman and accused him of blackmailing her by claiming to be her husband.

The family court rejected her plea in May 2018 and declared her marriage with Rehman valid. However, it cancelled said marriage on the basis of a khula sough by her. The plea was filed nine years earlier, in 2009.

At the time, the judge, Babar Nadeem, observed that the suit moved by Meera nine years earlier was not based on the truth and she was the wife of the defendant (Rehman). “The nikhanama is lawfully registered,” the judge said.

He noted that the testimony of witnesses revealed that a house in DHA Lahore had become bone of contention between the couple and they resorted to criminal and civil litigation against each other for the last 10 years.

The judge observed that the couple could not live anymore like husband and wife due to bitterness of their relation. “Therefore, the nikhanama in question is hereby declared cancelled,” the judge added.

Meera had argued that Rehman had showed a fake nikahnama in order to steal her property. She claimed that the nikahnama was not verified by the union council concerned and had asked the court to declare the impugned marriage certificate fake. Rehman had also filed a private complaint before a judicial magistrate against Meera, accusing her of committing a crime by contracting marriage with Captain Naveed as she was still his wife. He said Meera wed Naveed without dissolution of her previous marriage and accused her of occupying his house in DHA.