GUJRANWALA – A court in Gujranwala extended the judicial remand of JamaatudDawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed for 14 days on Wednesday.

Special Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) judge Syed Ali Imran directed theCounter Terrorism Department (CTD) to complete its investigation andpresent a formal chalan on August 7. The court remarked that Saeed bepresented on the same day.

Strict security arrangements were made when JuD chief was being presentedbefore the court as Anti-Riot Police, Dolphin Force and Elite Forcepersonnel, as well as police officials, were deployed.

After his arrest on July 17, Saeed had been sent to jail on seven-dayjudicial remand; he was arrested in connection with a terrorism financingcase while on his way from Lahore to Gujranwala.

As many as six suspects were nominated in the FIR registered against themon July 1 on a complaint of the CTD.

During the first week of July, top 13 leaders of the banned JuD, includingSaeed and Naib Emir Abdul Rehman Makki, were booked in nearly two dozencases for terror financing and money laundering under the Anti-TerrorismAct, 1997.

In March, Punjab police said that government seized control of 160seminaries, 32 schools, two colleges, four hospitals, 178 ambulances and153 dispensaries associated with the JuD and its charity wing FIF in theprovince.