The Lahore high court on November 6 set aside a trial court's conviction and acquitted six senior leaders of Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) in a terror financing case, reports The Times of India. The Lahore Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in April this year had handed nine-year imprisonment each to JuD senior leaders – Prof. Malik Zafar Iqbal, Yahya Mujahid (JuD spokesperson), Nasarullah, Samiullah and Umar Bahadur - and six months' jail term to Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki (brother-in-law of Saeed) after an FIR was registered by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Punjab Police. The trial court had found these leaders guilty of terror financing. They had been collecting funds and unlawfully financing the proscribed organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). It had also ordered the confiscation of assets made from funds collected through terrorism financing. “On Saturday LHC's division bench comprising Chief Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhatti and Justice Tariq Saleem Sheikh set aside the trial court's decision in the CTD's FIR 18 of 2020 against the six JuD leaders after the prosecution failed to prove the charge against the appellants beyond reasonable doubt,” a court official said. The official said the division bench allowed the petition of the JuD leaders, observing “the statement of the ‘star prosecution witness' is not reliable as there is no corroboratory evidence.”