Hafiz Saeed To Stand Trial In Absentia Under New Law For Pahalgam Attack | Read

In a major development in the Pahalgam terror attack case, a Jammu court has issued a non-bailable warrant against Hafiz Saeed, the founder of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group. The warrant was issued after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) named him as the mastermind in a supplementary chargesheet filed this month. Sources close to the investigation told NDTV that Saeed, who operates from Pakistan under military protection, will be tried in absentia.

Twenty-six people, most of whom were civilians, were killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam in April last year in the worst terrorist incident in J&K since 2019, when 41 soldiers were killed in Uri by another Pak-based group, the Jaish-e-Mohammed.