Non-bailable warrant against Hafiz Saeed, named in Pahalgam attack chargesheet
A special NIA court has issued a non-bailable warrant against Hafiz Saeed, the Pakistan-based chief of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba, in connection with the ongoing investigation
A special NIA court has issued a non-bailable warrant against Hafiz Saeed, the Pakistan-based chief of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba, in connection with the ongoing investigation into the Pahalgam terror attack. The order was passed by the Special Judge of the NIA Court on July 8, two days after the anti-terror agency filed a supplementary chargesheet against Saeed in the case. Saeed, designated a global terrorist by India and the US, is also considered the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
Read Full Story The supplementary chargesheet, filed before the special NIA court in Jammu, names the 76-year-old Saeed both in his personal capacity and as the chief of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba and its proxy front, The Resistance Front. He has been booked under multiple provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. According to the court order, the NIA told the court that Saeed, described as an absconding terrorist and a resident of Sargodha in Pakistan's Punjab province, is an accused in the Pahalgam terror attack case and has been deliberately evading arrest.
The agency sought the issuance of an open-dated non-bailable warrant against him to begin further proceedings in the matter and take legal action during further investigation. "Arrest and custodial interrogation of the accused (Saeed) are necessary for a fair, complete and effective investigation. As such non-bailable warrant of arrest is issued against him and is forwarded it to the Deputy Inspector General (DIG), NIA Jammu, for execution in accordance with law," the order said.
On April 22 last year, terrorists killed 26 people, most of them tourists, at Pahalgam in south Kashmir. The latest court order is part of the ongoing probe into that attack. Ends
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