Zayn Malik, a 28-year-old British singer of Pakistani descent, apologized for fighting the lawsuit filed by his mother-in-law in a US family court and rejected the allegations, but accepted the sentence handed down by the court.
According to the Associated Press (AP), Zayn Malik has filed a petition in the Family Court of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, not to fight the legal battle in the case filed by his mother-in-law Elanda Hadid. pleads no contest).
The report states that the singer's petition simply means that he does not want to fight the legal battle against the domestic violence charges against him, nor does he admit the allegations.
According to court documents, court documents filed against Zayn Malik show that he abused and pushed his mother-in-law, Yelanda Hadid.
The AP quoted another website, TMZ, in the report as saying that Zayn Malik had also shaken hands with his mother-in-law's security guard while pressuring his partner GG Hadid to support him instead of his mother. ۔
Instead of fighting the case in family court, Malik applied for a "pleads no contest" under US law, which means he does not want to fight a legal battle, the report said.
According to the report, the family court sentenced the singer to take classes for almost a year on various charges after a petition was filed against him.
According to the report, Zayn Malik was sentenced to 90 days and a total of one year on each charge for taking domestic violence and good morals and training classes and was also ordered not to contact his mother-in-law.
The court ruled that Zayn Malik's sentence could be commuted to six months instead of one year if he took responsibility and took good lessons on domestic violence awareness and ethics.
A day before the incident, it was reported that Zayn Malik and his partner GG Hadid had parted ways.
According to US and British media reports, Zayn Malik and GG Hadid had a falling out over the issue of raising their one-year-old daughter Khai Hadid, while the singer also insulted his mother-in-law over the same issue.
The couple has not yet explicitly confirmed the marriage; file photo: Reuters
According to the report, GG Hadid and the singer had split even before Zayn Malik insulted Yelanda Hadid.
Zayn Malik himself tweeted on the issue that he believes in the individual freedom of every person and he wants no one else to interfere in his affairs for the better upbringing of his daughter.
It is worth mentioning here that GG Hadid and Zayn Malik have not yet clearly confirmed their marriage, they had a daughter in September 2020.
The two initially had a relationship in 2015, but three years later, in 2018, the two separated for unknown reasons.
After a two-year separation, the two reportedly reconciled in early 2020 and were spotted together, and later confirmed that they had a daughter in September 2020.
