New Delhi, Delhi, India

The spokesperson of the UN-designated terrorist and mastermind of 2008 Mumbai attacks Hafiz Saeed's Jammat-ud-Dawah (JuD) has been handed down imprisonment of 32 years in terror financing cases. 

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The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) JuD announced the sentencing of JuD spokesperson Yahya Mujahid and two other leaders of the terror group, including Saeed's brother-in-law Abdul Rehman Makki.

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"ATC Judge Ijaz Ahmad Buttar handed down 32 years imprisonment to JuD spokesperson Yahya Mujahid in two FIRs. Prof Zafar Iqbal and Prof Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki (brother-in-law of Saeed) were awarded 16 and one-year jail terms in two cases," said a court official, as quoted by news agency PTI.

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The official also said two other JuD leaders, Abdul Salam bin Muhammad and Luqman Shah, were also indicted in terror financing cases.

This sentencing came after the anti-terrorism court convicted JuD's Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki, Zafar Iqbal and Muhammad Ashraf in other cases of terror financing. 

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Both Zafar and Ashraf had been given imprisonment of 16 years each under the Anti-Terrorism Act, while Makki was sentenced to one year with a fine of Rs 170,000 (approx USD 1074).

In February 2019, Saeed had been sentenced for 11 years on terror finance charges.