LeT leader Lakhvi awarded 15-year jail for financing terrorism
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Friday awarded 15-year jail term to Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, a pacesetter of proscribed organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), over charges of terrorism and terror financing.
ATC Judge Aijaz Ahmad Butter also imposed Rs300,000 fine on the convict. just in case of default payment of the fine, the convict would need to undergo further imprisonment. the decision also directed the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) to arrest the co-accused within the case, Abu Anas Mohsin and produce him within the court.
The CTD had booked Lakhvi just in case no 26/20, registered at the CTD Lahore station under three different charges of Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA). Lakhvi was accused of running a medical dispensary to gather and disburse funds for financing terrorism.
The court awarded five-year jail term to Lakhvi on each charge. Furthermore, it's been learnt that Lakhvi are going to be shifted to Central Jail Adiala to serve his sentence. The CTD arrested Lakhvi from Lahore last Saturday. The CTD, after the arrest, issued a press release saying that Lakhvi was running a dispensary in Lahore as a front for financing militant activities.
Lakhvi is imagined to be a pacesetter of the Lashker-e-Taiba that allegedly organised the Mumbai attacks in 2008, killing 166 people. He was detained days after the Mumbai attacks, but released in 2015 by the courts.
Lakhvi was a prominent figure in Hafiz Saeed’s charity Jamaatud Daawa, which is believed to be a front for Lashker-e-Taiba. consistent with a UN Security Council sanctions committee, Lakhvi is that the chief of operations and military commander of the LeT. Hafiz Saeed, who has been designated a terrorist by the US Department of Justice and features a $10 million bounty on his head, is presently serving multiple jail terms after being convicted in several cases in recent months.
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