LAHORE, Nov 19:
Mumbai terror attack mastermind and Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed was today sentenced to 10 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan in two more terror financing cases.
Saeed, a UN designated terrorist whom the US has placed a USD 10 million bounty on, was arrested on July 17 last year in the terror financing cases. He was sentenced to 11 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court in February this year in two terror financing cases.
The 70-year-old JuD chief is lodged at Lahore’s high-security Kot Lakhpat jail.
“The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) of Lahore today sentenced four JuD leaders, including its chief Hafiz Saeed, in two more cases,” a court official said. Click here to watch video
Saeed and his two close aides – Zafar Iqbal and Yahya Mujahid – have been sentenced to 10 and a half years each, while JuD chief’s brother-in-law Abdul Rehman Makki was sentenced to six months imprisonment.
“Judge Arshad Hussain Bhutta of ATC Court No. 1 heard the case filed by the Counter Terrorism Department in which the verdict has been announced after the statements of witnesses were cross-examined,” the official said.
A total of 41 cases have been registered by the CTD against the JuD leaders, out of which 24 have been decided while the rest are pending in the ATC courts. Four cases have been decided against Saeed so far. (PTI)
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