Pakistan | JuD Pak court acquits six leaders of Hafiz Saeed's JuD in terror funding case
Lahore, Pakistan/IBNS: Pakistan's Lahore High Court (LHC) on Saturday acquitted six leaders of outlawed Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), the front organization for the proscribed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) led by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed who was the mastermind of 2008 deadly Mumbai terror attacks, in a terror financing case.
According to the Dawn newspaper, an anti-terrorism court on Apr 3 had convicted these six leaders for offences under various sections of Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Act, and the trail court had sentenced nine-year imprisonment to each Malik Zafar Iqbal, Yahya Mujahid, Nasrullah, Samiullah and Umar Bahadur while Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki had been awarded a six-month jail term.
They later challenged their conviction before a division bench of the LHC comprising Chief Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhatti and Justice Tariq Saleem Sheikh, and the court on Saturday acquitted all of them in the terror funding case.
The Dawn reported JuD chief Hafiz Saeed and several other leaders of the outfit have been convicted in dozens of FIRs registered by the the country's Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on charges of terror financing, and the CTD had registered as many as 41 FIRs against the JuD leaders in different Pak cities.
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