Lahore High Court acquits 6 leaders of Jamaat-ud-Dawa in terror financing case

The Lahore High Court on Saturday acquitted six leaders of Hafiz Saeed’s Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) in a terror-financing case, reported the Pakistani media.

On April 3, 2021, a court docket convicted the appellants underneath varied sections of the Anti-Terrorism Act. JuD was the entrance organisation for Lakshar-e-Taiba (LeT), which was liable for finishing up the 2008 Mumbai assault.According to Dawn, the trial court docket had sentenced nine-year imprisonment to every Professor Malik Zafar Iqbal, Yahya Mujahid, Nasrullah, Samiullah and Umar Bahadur, whereas Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki had been awarded a six-month jail time period.ALSO READ: Delhi Police chief Rakesh Asthana reaches Special Cell workplace, interrogates arrested Pakistani terroristLater, the decision was challenged earlier than a division bench of the Lahore High Court. The counsel argued that the prosecution didn’t show the fees ‘past affordable doubt’ and the trial court docket had brought on a critical ‘miscarriage of justice’.The bench maintained, “The appellants cannot be convicted for the mere reason that LeT or the trust have been proscribed.”The counsel additional argued that the Al-Anfaal Trust, of which the appellants had been members, had no reference to LeT they usually had dissociated themselves from the belief within the mid-2000s.Allowing the appeals, the division bench noticed that the assertion of the primary prosecution witness was not dependable as there was no corroboratory proof, reported ANI.“In his cross-examination Inspector Muhammad Khalid (prosecution witness) conceded that the local police station never received any complaint against the appellants and even during his investigation nobody from the general public brought anything to his notice which could expose their malefactions,” the bench notes.The bench dominated that the prosecution had didn’t independently set up the offences underneath sections 11-F and 11-J(2) of the Anti-terrorism Act.JuD chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and a number of other different leaders have been convicted in practically 41 FIRs by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on prices of terror financing in several cities.ALSO READ: Pakistan’s ISI held confidential assembly with terror outfits to plan assaults in J&Ok, goal Kashmiri Pandits | Exclusive