Hafiz Saeed: Pakistan's anti-terror court sentences JuD chief Hafiz Saeed to 10 years in jail in two more cases
LAHORE: Mumbai terror attack mastermind and Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed was on Thursday sentenced to 10 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan in two more terror cases.
Saeed,
a UN designated terrorist whom the US has placed a $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.
He is lodged at the Lahore's high-security Kot Lakhpat jail.
"The
Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) of Lahore on Thursday sentenced four leaders
of Jamat-ud-Dawa, including its chief Hafiz Saeed, in two more cases," a
court official told PTI.
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 No. 16/19 and 25/19 filed by Counter
Terrorism Department in which the verdict has been announced after the
statements of witnesses were cross-examined by Naseeruddin Nayyar and
Mohammad Imran Fazal Gul Advocate," 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.
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