Lahore:
Mumbai attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court in Lahore in a terror financing case on Friday.
UN proscribed terrorist Lakhvi, 61, who was on bail given that 2015 in the Mumbai attack case, was arrested by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab province on Saturday.
“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,” a court official told PTI just after the hearing.
Judge Ejaz Ahmad Buttar sentenced Lakhvi to 5 years of rigorous imprisonment every on 3 counts with a fine of PKR one hundred,000 every on 3 counts. “In default of payment of fine, he will have to undergo an imprisonment of six months each on three counts. He has been sent to prison to serve the sentences,” the official mentioned.
Lakhvi pleaded ahead of the court that he was “falsely implicated” in this case.