Feroze Khan apologises to celebrities whose numbers he shared, Muneeb Butt drops charges against him.

Actors Feroze Khan and Muneeb Butt have both decided to raise a white flag and end their legal battle. Butt announced that he has dropped all charges against Feroze shortly after the latter explained his side and apologised for sharing the personal details of a number of celebrities he had taken action against for speaking in support of his ex-wife.

On Sunday, Feroze shared a detailed apology on Instagram. 'On January 17, 2023, a legal notice of defamation (drafted by my former legal team) was posted from my [Instagram]. Somehow, I failed to notice that the said notice contained the personal details of the recipients including their phone numbers. As soon as I realised, I deleted the post immediately within minutes,' he wrote.

The Habs actor shared a picture with Butt on Instagram. 'Whatever happened between my family and Muneeb Butt, we have decided to end it here with the guidance of our elders. In the future, we will maintain a relationship of mutual respect and care like a family,' he wrote.

Butt posted the same picture with an identical caption, except for replacing his own name with Feroze's.

The Baddua actor announced that he has decided to drop charges against Feroze. He had initiated action after Feroze leaked private information of a list of celebrities, including Butt's wife Aiman Khan and sister-in-law Minal Khan.

'I, Muneeb Butt, and family hereby state that to give us pain and mental distress wasn't Feroze Khan's intention. It was a mistake and I announce to drop all the charges,' Butt wrote on Instagram.

He also added that people should have 'faith in our judiciary system' and 'respect their Feroze and his former wife Aliza Sultan's privacy and restrain from commenting'.

Aiman and Minal posted identical statements on their respective Instagram accounts.

Minal's husband, actor Ahsan Mohsin Ikram, did the same.

What happened

In January, Feroze announced that he had served defamation notices to people perpetuating 'false and baseless allegations' against him regarding the accusations by his former spouse Aliza Sultan of domestic abuse.

However, in his initial post announcing the notice on Instagram which he later deleted, he shared the names of nine celebrities as well as their private information like their mobile phone numbers and, in some cases, their addresses.

Though Butt was not named in the legal notice, he took to social media on behalf of his wife and sister-in-law in order to take action against Feroze for leaking...

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