Citing Hindi movie Phantom, court asks if Hafiz Saeed's detention is due to international conspiracy

Hafiz Saeed the mastermind of the 26/11, Mumbai attacks was placed under house arrest on January 30.

The Lahore high court in Pakistan sought to know under what authority it had detained Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed. "How have you detained him without a trial?" the court asked the Punjab government.

The bench headed by Justice Syed Kazim Raza Shamsi was hearing a petition by Saeed and others who challenged their detention under the anti-terrorism law.

Justice Shamsi observed that the government should tell about its powers to detain a citizen like Saeed without trial. Referring to an Indian movie wherein Saeed was portrayed as a villain, the judge said the government should see if there is any 'international conspiracy' against Pakistani citizens.

The government on January 30 had put Saeed and the four leaders of JuD and Falah-e-Insaniat under house arrest in Lahore under the country's anti-terrorism act.

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