Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Zaki-ur-Rehman (File image: Reuters/Anindito Mukherjee)
Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, considered one of the masterminds of the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, was sentenced to 5 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on January 8, according to a Reuters report.
Lakhvi was found guilty of extending financial assistance to terrorists through various businesses. He was sentenced to five years concurrently on three separate counts of the same offence and was fined Pakistani Rupees 1 lakh for each count, Reuters reported.
The United Nations-proscribed terrorist Lakhvi, 61, who was on bail since 2015 in the Mumbai attack case, was arrested by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab province on January 2.
"The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Lahore convicted Lakhvi for commission of offences of terrorism financing in a case registered by the CTD for 15 years under different section of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997," news agency PTI quoted a court official as saying.
Lakhvi pleaded before the court that he was “falsely implicated” in this case.Headquartered in Pakistan, LeT has been accused of carrying out multiple terror attacks in India, including the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. LeT has been designated as a terrorist organisation by several countries.
Lakhvi is also on the ‘Most Wanted’ list of India's National Investigation Agency (NIA).
The 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in 2008 were launched by 10 foreign terrorists on multiple locations in India’s financial capital and had left 166 people dead and over 300 injured.
(With inputs from agencies)
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