26/11 Terrorists sentenced to Judicial Custody
Yahya Mujahid of mastermind Hafiz Saeed’s Jamat-ud-Dawah (JuD), responsible for the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, was sent to 15 years of jail term by Pakistani Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC). A collective imprisonment was awarded to Mujahid last month for 32 years in two terror financing cases by the ATC.
On Wednesday ATC Lahore also sent JuD’s senior leader Zafar Iqbal for 15 years if imprisonment and a six month jail term to Prof. Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki, who is the brother-in-law of Hafiz Saeed the JuD chief. Earlier Iqbal was sentenced to 26 years of jail in three such cases.
Ijaz Ahmed Buttar, the judge of the ATC announced his verdict on FIR 42 of 2019 under different provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997. At the time of announcement of the verdict the three convicts were present at the court.
In Punjab as many as 41 FIR’s have been registered by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) against the JuD leader Hafiz Saeed in different cities. So far the trial courts have decided only for 25 cases.
Saeed has been charged under section 11-N of Anti-Terrorism Act 1999 in four cases and is been sent to jail for 21 years on terror financing charges. JuD is also the front organization for the Lashkar-e-Taiba which is responsible for carrying out the 26/11 Mumbai attacks in 2008 in which 166 people were killed including six American tourists in it. JuD’s chief was already named by the US as a Specially Designated Global Terrorists and has offered USD 10 million bounty on him since 2012
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