Terrorist Hafiz Saeed gets 31 years in jail by Pak Court

A Pakistani Court on Friday sentenced Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief and 26/11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed in fresh terror financing cases. Saeed was given four separate prison sentences ranging from six months to five years, that would run concurrently. The court also ordered seizure of all his assets. The anti-terrorism court, which convicted Saeed, also imposed a fine on the dreaded terrorists. Hafiz Saeed had been sent to jail earlier by the anti-terrorism court. In 2020, he was sentenced to over 15 years in jail in one of the several terror financing cases against him.

Saeed, who has planned and funded several terror attacks, was the mastermind behind the devastating 2008 attacks in Mumbai - a series of terrorist strikes in 2008, when 10 members of the Lashkar-e-Toiba carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks for four days across India’s financial capital. 166 people were killed and hundreds were injured.Earlier in five such cases, the 70-year-old radical cleric had already been convicted for 36 years imprisonment. The anti-terrorism court (ATC) judge Ejaz Ahmad Bhuttar handed down 32 years jail term to Saeed in two FIRs - 21/2019 and 90/2019 registered by the Counter Terrorism Department of Punjab Police. Saeed was named as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the United States. He was also listed under the UN Security Council Resolution 1267 in December 2008.