26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed gets 31 years in jail by Pakistan's anti-terrorism court.

 In different terror cases, Mumbai terror attack mastermind and Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed was sentenced to 31 years in prison by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Friday.

In two terror financing instances, he was sentenced to 11 years in prison by an anti-terrorism court in February 2021.

Last month, India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) court has ordered the filing of charges against Hafiz Saeed, the founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), and Syed Salahuddin, the chief of the Hizbul Mujahideen, as well as Kashmiri separatist leaders Yasin Malik, Shabbir Shah, Masarat Alam, and others, under various sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) in a case involving terrorist and secessionist activities.

In 2017, Hafiz Saeed and his four aides were detained by Pakistan but they were released after nearly 11 months when the Judicial Review Board of Punjab refused to extend their confinement.

He was arrested in 2019, just before Pakistan PM Imran Khan's visit to the US. At the time, US President Donald Trump had tweeted that Saeed had been detained after a 10-year search.

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