{"id":578565,"date":"2010-05-25T14:51:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T18:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2010\/05\/pakistan-high-court-rejects-appeal-to-jail-mumbai-attack-suspect.php"},"modified":"2010-05-25T14:51:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T18:51:10","slug":"pakistan-high-court-rejects-appeal-to-jail-mumbai-attack-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/578565","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan high court rejects appeal to jail Mumbai attack suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"left\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jurist.law.pitt.edu\/topstoryphoto\/frontpakistan.jpg\" alt=\"Photo source or description\" valign=\"top\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"4\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jurist.law.pitt.edu\/images\/s.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"5\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[JURIST] Pakistan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov.pk\/web\/\">Supreme Court<\/a> [official website] ruled Tuesday that a Pakistani cleric accused by India of plotting the <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/jurist_search.php?q=mumbai+2008\">2008 Mumbai terror attacks<\/a> [JURIST news archive] cannot be jailed due to lack of evidence. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaljihad.net\/view_page.asp?id=1252\">Hafiz Muhammad Saeed<\/a> [Global Jihad profile] is the head of fundamentalist terrorist group <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.cfr.org\/publication\/17882\/\">Lashkar-e-Taiba<\/a> (LeT) [CFR backgrounder], which was allegedly behind the attacks. Pakistan put Saeed under <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2009\/09\/pakistan-authorities-place-mumbai.php\">virtual house arrest<\/a> [JURIST report] one month after the onslaught, where he remained except for a three-month period last summer, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lhc.gov.pk\/\">Lahore High Court<\/a> (LHC) [official website] <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2009\/10\/pakistan-court-drops-charges-against.php\">ordered his release<\/a> [JURIST report] in October after finding insufficient evidence to link him to the Mumbai attacks or <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/jurist_search.php?q=al+Qaeda\">al Qaeda<\/a> [JURIST news archive]. The Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling could strain the already fragile relationship between India and Pakistan, which had recently begun peace talks.<\/p>\n<p>The charges against Saeed had been filed under the Pakistani <a href=\"http:\/\/www.satp.org\/satporgtp\/countries\/pakistan\/document\/actsandordinences\/anti_terrorism.htm\">Anti-Terrorism Act<\/a> [text] and were related to speeches Saeed gave while visiting Faisalabad last year. It is claimed that he <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/pakistan\/Pak-court-dismisses-FIRs-against-26\/11-accused-Hafiz-Saeed\/articleshow\/5115368.cms\">discussed<\/a> [<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Times of India<\/span> report] the significance of Jihad and asked for funding for his charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), which is believed to be a front for the LeT. Saeed&#8217;s lawyer successfully argued that JuD was not a banned group. In September, Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik announced that his government would <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2009\/09\/pakistan-to-indict-seven-for-2008.php\">indict seven suspects<\/a> [JURIST report] for their role in the attacks, also requesting further evidence from India that Saeed was involved in planning the attacks. Mumbai has suffered a number of terrorist attacks allegedly linked to the LeT in recent years, leading the government to consider <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2006\/07\/india-government-urged-to-revive.php\">controversial terrorism laws<\/a> and to institute <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2006\/11\/india-to-use-special-courts-for-mumbai.php\">special courts<\/a> [JURIST reports] to try suspects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[JURIST] Pakistan&#8217;s Supreme Court [official website] ruled Tuesday that a Pakistani cleric accused by India of plotting the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks [JURIST news archive] cannot be jailed due to lack of evidence. Hafiz Muhammad Saeed [Global Jihad profile] is the head of fundamentalist terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) [CFR backgrounder], which was allegedly behind the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7088,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7088"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}