Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) founder Hafeez Muhammed Saeed was re-arrested for a two-month period and lodged in Lahore jail.
ISLAMABAD: Shortly after his release following a court order, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) founder Hafeez Muhammed Saeed was re-arrested for a two-month period and lodged in Lahore jail.
Saeed's lawyer Nazir Ahmed Ghazi said from Lahore on Tuesday that his client was released for an hour on Monday following the Lahore High Court's order, but was arrested again from his residence late in the evening.
"He was brought from the Shiekhpura guest house where he was earlier lodged and released in Lahore. But he was detained for a period of two months once again an hour later," Ghazi said adding, "he was brought home and taken to a local jail."
Ghazi said he would take up the case in the Lahore High Court again.
The Lahore High Court had on Monday ordered his release saying that his detention on the ground that he was a threat to public peace was illegal.
Justice Akhtar Shabbir who heard the writ petition filed by Saeed's wife quashed the detention order stating that the government has failed to provide any proof or strong
reasons for his detention.
The court held that the government has failed to provide strong reasons for his arrest and his detention on August nine was based on speculation that he could disturb peace.
Saeed who heads an NGO called Jamat-ud-Dawa was arrested on August 10 under the maintenance of public order on the ground that he was likely to disturb peace
during his planned rally coinciding with Pakistan's Independence Day on August 14.
India suspects LeT's involvement in the July 11 serial train blasts in Mumbai and had called Saeed's detention a positive step.
Pakistan Foreign Office had absloved Saeed of any role in the airline terror plot and said his house arrest was not in anyway connected with it. --PTI
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