LONDON/ KARACHI (ENNS) In a public notice issued on Saturday, Carter-Ruck Solicitors in London said that Justice Nicklin in the London High Court approved a consent order resolving a claim on terms that ARY Network Ltd in which the group agreed to pay Mian Mohammad Mansha “substantial damages of £75,000 and agreed legal costs of £200,000.”
The consent order was approved on June 8. The notice said that ARY Network Ltd “entered into creditors’ voluntary liquidation on Jan 12, 2017. Following this, the responsibility for the defence of the proceedings passed to the appointed liquidator.”
It added that on Feb 1, 2017, the UK media regulator, Ofcom, “revoked all six Ofcom licenses held by ARY Network Ltd due to breaches of the license terms.”
The case was brought by Mansha in April 2016 after a programme titled “Kab Tak”, broadcast in November 2015 by ARY made what Mansha’s lawyers referred to as “wholly false and defamatory allegations,” accusing him of being “guilty of money laundering in relation to the acquisition of the St James Hotel and Club Ltd.” In December 2015, the network again aired what it called “an exclusive report of Mian Mansha’s stay at St James Hotel.”
