JuD to challenge US bounty on Hafiz Saeed in court
April 04, 2012  11:26

Banned terror outfit Jamaat-ud Dawa has expressed anger as India welcomed the US announcement of a 10 million dollar reward on its chief Hafiz Saeed, and has said that it will initiate legal consultations to determine if it can challenge the bounty in international courts.  

"Our legal experts will soon meet to consider if it is possible, we will use this option, though we don't take this seriously,' JuD Information Secretary Hafiz Muhammad Masood said.  

Masood, however, did not explicitly say whether the JuD would also challenge the decision in an American court.  

"We don't expect justice from them. For Americans, they consider a person innocent unless proven guilty, but for Muslims, they think of them as guilty unless proven innocent,' The Express Tribune quoted Masood, as saying.  

According to the report, law expert Ahmer Bilal Soofi said that the JuD would have to move an American court if it wants to challenge the decision.  

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