Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, has been sentenced to 10 years by an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan in two terror cases.
He was also sentenced to 11 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court in February this year in two terror financing cases. Hafiz Saeed and his two aides – Zafar Iqbal and Yahya Mujahid – have been sentenced to 10-and-a-half years each, while his brother-in-law Abdul Rehman Makki has been sentenced to six-month imprisonment.
“The anti-terrorism court of Lahore on Thursday sentenced four leaders of Jamat-ud-Dawa, including its chief Hafiz Saeed, in two more cases,” PTI quoted the court official.
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.
Hafiz Saeed is wanted in India for planning the attack in Mumbai in 2008 when 10 terrorists killed 166 people and injured hundreds.
Hafiz Saeed was arrested in Pakistan in July last year in connection with terror-financing cases after international pressure was built upon Pakistan to come clean. He is being kept at Lahore’s high-security Kot Lakhpat jail.
He is also known as a “global terrorist” both by the United Nations and the US, which put a $10 million bounty on his head. He was listed under the UN Security Council Resolution 1267 in December 2008.
