Pakistan Court Sentenced Mumbai Attack Mastermind Lakhvi to 15 Years in Prison

LAHORE: Lahore anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi to 15 years in jail in a terror funding case.

Lakhvi who was the mastermind behind 26/11 Mumbai attack and was arrested in Pakistan for terror financing, on January 2.

Further, the court also directed law enforcement agencies to arrest the co-accused in the case, Abu Anas Mohsin, due to availability of sufficient evidence against them.

In a statement issued on Jan 2, officials said he was suspected of running a medical dispensary to collect and disburse funds for financing terrorism, had been charged under relevant sections of the ATA and would be brought before an ATC in Lahore.

Meanwhile, In its written order issued today, the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), Lakhvi guilty under three sections of ATA, for running a dispensary in Kot Lakhpat to raise funds for financing terrorism.

Henceforth, the terror mastermind was sentenced to five-year prison terms under each section, to be served concurrently, with an additional fine of Rs 300,000.

LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi was the mastermind behind the 26/11 attacks that claimed 166 lives and injured 300 others after coordinated shootouts and bombings orchestrated by the LeT terrorists for three days across India's financial capital. The terrorists who came from Pakistan to Mumbai via sea route targeted several locations-- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) railway station, Cama Hospital, Leopold Cafe, Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, Oberoi Trident and Nariman house and the Nariman House business and residential complex.

The attacks, which drew widespread global condemnation, began on Wednesday 26 November and lasted until Saturday 29 November 2008.

Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi has orchestrated terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Bosnia, Iraq and South-East Asia.

According to reports, Lakhvi was designated as a global terrorist by the UN in December 2008 for being associated with LeT and al-Qaeda and for "participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of" both the entities.

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