New Delhi: A woman arrested in connection with a blast outside the residence of Mumbai attack mastermind and Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed has told a local court in Pakistan that there was no solid ground to detain her and asked the court to release her. inspired to The notice to the Anti-Terrorism Department (CTD) and the Punjab government has been sought within two weeks.
On June 23, three people were killed and over 20 were injured in an explosion outside Saeed’s Johor city residence. Several houses, shops and vehicles in the area were damaged in the blast. The Punjab government claimed to have traced the network of all “10 Pakistani suspects” involved in the blast.
“The law enforcement agencies had arrested four suspects – Peter Paul David, Eid Gul, Ayesha Bibi and another person. The trial in the case is yet to begin,” an official source in Punjab Police told PTI.
Ayesha Bibi filed a post-arrest petition in the Lahore High Court saying she has been arrested by the CTD for being an “assistant” to the alleged terrorists involved in the blast outside Saeed’s residence.
Ayesha claimed in her petition, “I have nothing to do with the arrested terrorists. The police have no solid ground to arrest me.”
Ayesha’s lawyer Fida Hussain told the court that she had nothing to do with the blast as she was not present in Jauhar town when the incident took place. After hearing the petition, the court issued notice to the CTD and the Punjab government to file a reply within two weeks.
Saeed is serving a prison term in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail for his sentence in terror funding cases. Saeed (71) has been designated a terrorist by the United Nations and the United States has placed a $10 million bounty on him. He has been sentenced to 36 years in prison on five counts of terrorism financing. The sentences awarded in all the cases are running concurrently.
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