: LeT founder Hafiz Saeed sentenced to 10 years in prison in two terror cases: Reports #IndiaNEWS An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Thursday sentenced Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind

LeT founder Hafiz Saeed sentenced to 10 years in prison in two terror cases: Reports #IndiaNEWS
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Thursday sentenced Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind behind the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, to 10 years in jail in two more terror cases, reported PTI.In February, Saeed was sentenced to five-and-a-half years imprisonment each in two terror financing cases but the sentences are running concurrently. He is lodged at Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail.Saeed, the chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, and his two close aides – Zafar Iqbal and Yahya Mujahid – have been sentenced to 10 and a half years each, while his brother-in-law Abdul Rehman Makki was sentenced to six months imprisonment on Thursday.“Judge Arshad Hussain Bhutta of ATC [anti-terrorism court] 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,??? a court official said.The court has also ordered Saeed’s properties to be confiscated, News18 reported.Pakistan’s Counter-Terrorism Department has lodged 41 cases against the Jamaat-ud-Dawa leaders. Twenty-four of the 41 have been decided, while the rest are pending before the anti-terrorism court.Pakistan had in August included Saeed’s name along with fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and a few more Taliban leaders in its own list of terrorists, and imposed an...Read more

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