Pakistan's anti-terror court sentences JuD chief Hafiz Saeed to 10 years in jail in two more cases

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 US has placed a USD 10 million bounty on, was arrested on July 17 last year in 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 Lahore's high-security Kot Lakhpat jail.

" Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) of Lahore on Thursday sentenced four leers 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 bror-in-law Abdul Rehman Makki was sentenced to six months imprisonment.

"Judge Arsh Hussain Bhutta of ATC Court . 1 heard case . 16/19 and 25/19 filed by Counter Terrorism Department in which verdict has been anunced after statements of witnesses were cross-examined by Naseeruddin Nayyar and Mohamm Imran Fazal Gul vocate," official said.

A total of 41 cases have been registered by CTD against JuD leers, out of which 24 have been decided while rest are pending in ATC courts. Four cases have been decided against Saeed so far.

Saeed-led JuD is front organisation for Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) which is responsible for carrying out 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people, including six Americans.

US Department of Treasury has designated Saeed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. He was listed under UN Security Council Resolution 1267 in December 2008. 

(IM CREDITS:PTI)