LeT Chief Hafiz Saeed convicted for 31 years imprisonment

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New Delhi: Anti- terror Court in Pakistan on Saturday sentenced 31 years jail to the founder of LeT Hafiz Saeed. He is also known as the Chief of Jamaat ud Dawa. Anti-terror Court convicted him in two cases.

The Court also orders to seize all his assets and imposed a fine of ₹ 3, 40, 000 as UN designated terrorist. As per the reports, a Mosque and Madrassa that Hafiz Saeed allegedly built will be taken over. He has been sentenced in multiple cases of terror financing in the past. In 2020, he was sentenced to 15 years in jail. He has spent years in and out of detention in varying forms in Pakistan, sometimes under house arrest. But he roams freely across the country while addressing incendiary speeches targeting India with impunity.

Saeed was travelling to Gujranwala from Lahore to appear before an anti-terrorism Court when he was arrested by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab. Hafiz Saeed has been blamed for the terror attack on Mumbai on November 26, 2008, in which 166 people were killed.

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