Mumbai Terror Attack Handler Jailed For 15 Years In Pakistan

Lahore, Jun 24 (PTI): An anti-terrorism court docket in Pakistan has awarded over 15 years jail time period in a terror financing case to a major handler of lethal 2008 Mumbai assaults.

“An anti-terrorism court docket in Lahore early this month had handed down over 15 years jail time period to Sajid Majeed Mir, an activist of banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), on a terror financing case,” a senior lawyer related to terror financing circumstances of LeT and Jamaat-ud-Dawa leaders instructed PTI on Friday.

The Counter Terrorism Division (CTD) of the Punjab Police, which regularly points conviction of the suspects in such circumstances to the media, didn’t notify Mir’s conviction in a terror financing case.

In addition to, because it was an in-camera continuing at jail, the media was not allowed.

The lawyer additional stated convict Mir, who’s in mid 40s, has been within the Kot Lakhpat jail since his arrest on this April. He stated the court docket additionally imposed a positive of over Rs 400,000 to the convict.

Earlier, it was assumed that Mir was lifeless.

Earlier than the final assembly of the Monetary Motion Job Power (FATF), Pakistan reportedly instructed the company that it had arrested and prosecuted Sajid Mir with the intention to search its removing from the FATF ‘Gray record’.

Sajid Mir, who has a bounty of USD 5 Million is in India’s most wished record for his position within the 26/11 Mumbai assaults that left 166 folks lifeless.

Mir was referred to as “undertaking supervisor” of the Mumbai assaults. Mir reportedly had visited India in 2005 utilizing a faux passport in a faux title.

Mumbai terror assaults alleged mastermind and JuD chief Hafiz Saeed has already been sentenced for 68 years imprisonment in terror financing circumstances by the Lahore ATC.

The sentence is working concurrently, which suggests he is not going to should spend a few years in jail.

Mumbai assault operation commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi can also be convicted for a number of years in jail. Each Saeed and Maki are additionally in Kot Lapkhapt jail in Lahore.

Saeed, a UN-designated terrorist on whom the US has positioned a USD 10 million bounty, was arrested on July 2019 within the terror financing circumstances.

Saeed-led JuD is the entrance organisation for the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) which is liable for finishing up the 2008 Mumbai assault that additionally left six Individuals lifeless.

The US Division of the Treasury has designated Saeed as a Specifically Designated World Terrorist.

The worldwide terror financing watchdog Monetary Motion Job Power (FATF) is instrumental in pushing Islamabad to take measures towards terrorists roaming freely in Pakistan and utilizing its territory to hold out assaults in India.

The FATF had positioned Pakistan on the gray record in June 2018 and requested Islamabad to implement a plan of motion to curb cash laundering. PTI MZ PY PY PY

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