Hafiz Saeed sentenced to 31 years in prison

Islamabad: An Anti-Terrorism Court in Pakistan on Friday sentenced Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed to 31 years imprisonment in two separate cases.
He has also been fined a total of Rs 340,000. As per reports, the court further ordered confiscation of all his assets, including a Mosque and madrassa that Saeed had built.
In one case, Saeed has been sentenced to 16-and-a-half years, while in another, he has been sentenced to 15-and-a-half years of imprisonment.
Saeed has been under arrest since 2019 and so far, seven cases have been filed against him. The statements of witnesses were cross-examined by Naseeruddin Nayyar and Mohammad Imran Fazal Gul, Advocates of Hafiz Mohammad Saeed and others.
Earlier in two cases, Saeed was sentenced to 11 years in prison. A total of 41 cases have been registered in other cities.

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