Hafiz Saeed has been accused of orchestrating the 2008 Mumbai terror attack and is the founder and leader of the Islamist terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). He is wanted in India and is referred to as a “global terrorist” by both the United Nations (UN) and the United States (US), and, the US placed a $10 million bounty on his head.
According to NDTV, Saeed was arrested in Pakistan in July, 2019 in connection with terror-financing cases.
Previously, in February, Hafiz Saeed and some of his aides were convicted and sentenced to 11 years in a terror-financing case, reported NDTV.
He is presently lodged in a high security jail in Lahore.
(With inputs from PTI and NDTV.)