Lahore HC acquits 6 militants, including Hafiz Saeed's ally Makki, police fail to provide evidence

- Court also ordered confiscation of assets purchased with funds raised through terror funding

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The Lahore High Court has acquitted six senior leaders of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the banned outfit of Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed, in a case of providing funds for terrorist activities. The court overturned the lower court's decision to convict.

The banned organization Jamaat-ud-Dawa, led by Hafiz Saeed, is a similar organization under the guise of Lashkar-e-Taiba. Lashkar-e-Taiba is the terrorist organization responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks. The attack in Mumbai killed 166 people, including six Americans.

An anti-terrorism court in Lahore in April this year arrested an anti-terror activist linked to Jamaat-ud-Dawa after an FIR was lodged by the Punjab Police's Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD). Malik Zafar Iqbal, Yahya Mujahid (JUD spokesperson), Nasrullah, Samiullah and Umar Bahadur were sentenced to 9-9 years in prison and Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki to 6 months in prison.

The lower court convicted the leaders of financing terrorism. They were illegally raising funds for Lashkar-e-Taiba by raising funds. The court also ordered the confiscation of assets purchased from funds raised through terror funding.