A district and sessions court in Karachi has accepted YouTuber Yasir Shami’s appeal against the rejection of his acquittal plea in the case related to late televangelist Aamir Liaquat Hussain’s leaked private photos and videos.

According to reports, the court heard Shami’s appeal and overturned the earlier decision of a judicial magistrate, acquitting him as the petitioner’s lawyer argued that there was no evidence against Shami and that the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) report also confirmed the absence of any proof.

The lawyer informed the court that the FIA, in its supplementary challan, had declared the evidence insufficient and recommended removing Shami’s name from the case. Despite this, the judicial magistrate had earlier rejected both the FIA’s findings and Shami’s acquittal plea, the lawyer said.

The case was initially filed by Liaquat’s daughter, alleging that his private photos and videos had been leaked.

The late televangelist was found unconscious at his residence in June 2022 and later declared dead at a hospital. Weeks before his death, explicit videos featuring him and his ex-wife, Dania Malik, were leaked online, causing him severe mental distress.

In July 2022, a few weeks after his death, his former and first wife, Bushra Iqbal, along with their children, had also filed a complaint with FIA Karachi against Malik.

In October 2022, the FIA had registered a case against Malik under sections 20, 21, and 24 of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) 2016 over allegations of leaking the videos. She was arrested from Lodhran in December 2022 and later released on bail by a Karachi court.