Lahore, July 17: 26/11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind and leader of the globally banned Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) Hafiz Saeed was arrested and sent to prison over judicial remand on Wednesday by Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) in Lahore, Pakistan.
Saeed, who has a few cases pending against him was making a trip to Gujranwala from Lahore to show up before an anti-terrorism court when he was captured, authorities said.
Officials said he was sent to a high-security prison of Kot Lakhpat on judicial remand.
Saeed-drove Jamatud Dawa is accepted to be a front association for the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) which is in charge of carrying out the 2008 Mumbai assaults that claimed the lives of166 individuals.
Saeed has been designated by the US Department of the Treasury as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, and since 2012, the US has offered a USD 10 million reward for data that brings Saeed to equity.
Under strain from the global network, Pakistani experts have propelled investigation concerning matters of the LeT, JuD and its philanthropy wing the Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) with respect to their holding and utilization of trusts to raise assets for the terrorism financing, according to Times of India news reports.
Saeed’s detention comes after a CTD crackdown against fear financing, enlisted 23 cases against the JuD leader and his 12 associates for utilizing five trusts to flow cash to terror suspects.
The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) has on Monday, in Lahore, had conceded pre-detention bail to the JuD leader and three others for a situation relating to the outfit’s supposed unlawful utilization of land for its terror acts.
ATC Judge Javed Iqbal Warriach has granted pre-arrest bail to Saeed and his three associates – Ameer Hamza, Hafiz Masood, and Malik Zafar – until August 3 against the surety obligations of Rs 50,000 each.
On July 3, top 13 pioneers of the banned JuD, including Naib Emir Abdul Rehman Makki and Saeed, were reserved in about two dozen cases for terror financing and tax evasion under the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.
The CTD had enlisted an FIR against Saeed and others for unlawfully snatching a land parcel in Lahore and setting up their seminary.
As per authorities, JuD’s terror network incorporates 300 theological colleges and schools, emergency clinics, a distributing house, rescue vehicle administration, 32 schools, two colleges, four hospitals, 178 ambulances, and 153 dispensaries.
In March, Punjab police said that administration held onto control of 160 theological colleges, 32 schools, two universities, four clinics, 178 ambulances and 153 dispensaries related with the JuD and its philanthropy wing FIF in the region.
About, 56 seminaries and offices being controlled by the FIF and JuD in southern Sindh territory were likewise taken over by experts around the same time.