LHC top judge changes bench hearing Saeed's petition in terror financing case

Pakistan's Lahore High Court chief justice on Wednesday changed a two-member bench which was hearing the petition of Mumbai attack mastermind and JuD chief Hafiz Saeed challenging his arrest in the terror financing case.

Saeed, a UN designated terrorist whom the US has placed a USD 10 million bounty on, was arrested on July 17 in a terror financing case. He is lodged at the Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail in high security.

"The LHC chief justice on Wednesday transferred Saeed's case from two-member bench comprising Justice Mazahir Ali Naqvi and Justice Mushtaq Ahmed to other two-member bench headed by Justice Mohammad Qasim Khan," a court official told PTI.

He said Justice Khan's bench is also hearing other terrorism related case.

In the last hearing on August 27 Justice Naqvi's bench had sought reply from the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab police on the petition filed by Saeed and 67 other leaders of Jammat-ud-Dawah and Falah-i-Insaniat in two weeks.

It had also summoned a ..