26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed sentenced to 32 years of jail by a Pak anti-terrorism court

April 8: Mumbai attack (26/11) Hafiz Saeed has been sentenced to 31 years in prison by an anti-terror court in Pakistan. Hafiz Saeed, the chief of the Pakistan-based terror group Jamaat ud Dawa, was sentenced in two cases. The court has ordered that all his assets be seized.

Anti-terrorism court (ATC) judge Ejaz Ahmad Bhuttar on Friday awarded the 32 years jail term to Saeed in two FIRs registered by the Counter Terrorism Department of Punjab Police. “In the 21/19 and 99/21, he was sentenced for 15.5 years and 16.5 years, respectively.”

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. Hafiz Saeed has been blamed for the terror attack on Mumbai on November 26, 2008, in which 166 people were killed. Saeed is the founder and leader of the Islamist terrorist organisation LeT.  It has been involved in the 2001 shootout at Parliament House in New Delhi and the 2016 attack on the military headquarters in Uri.