Police came to his Lahore residence in the early hours with a letter containing orders for shifting him and took him away to an unknown destination.
ISLAMABAD: Founder of the banned terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taibba (LeT) Hafiz Saeed, who has been kept in house detention since August 10, was on Thursday shifted to an unknown place, a spokesman for the charity headed by him said.
Police came to his Lahore residence in the early hours with a letter containing orders for shifting him and took him away to an unknown destination, said Yhaya Mujahid, spokesman of Jama'at-ud-Daawa (JUD).
Saeed's son Talha Saeed, who was present at the home, had an argument with police against the shifting, Mujahid said adding the police id not provide a copy of the letter to the family.
The shifting of Saeed, who was to be put under house arrest for a month, comes amid reports of JUD's links with a terror plot to blow up US-bound planes starting from London.
Funds collected by JUD from Britain after last October's massive earthquake had been diverted to fund the plot, according to the media reports.
Saeed was put under house arrest and his organization was not given permission to hold public gathering at Minar-e-Pakistan on the Independence Day on August 14.
His wife Memoona Saeed had challenged his house arrest in the Lahore High Court, which came up for hearing yesterday. Police told the court that the arrest was to prevent him from disrupting public peace.
India suspects LeT's involvement in the July 11 serial train blasts in Mumbai and had called Saeed's detention a positive step.
Pakistan Foreign Office had absolved Saeed of any role in the airline terror plot and said his house arrest was not in anyway connected with it.
Significantly, the transfer of Saeed to unknown location comes a day after a shootout in Mumbai in which one alleged Pakistani militant was killed and another held.
During the Lahore High court hearing yesterday, Pakistan police said the Lashkar-e-Taiba founder was put under house arrest because he was "planning to disrupt public peace" by organising a rally on Pakistan's independence day.
They also submitted before the court a notification issued under section three of Maintenance of Public Order (MPO), through which his house detention was made.
The Lahore High court, which was hearing a petition filed by Saeed's wife Maimoona, had adjourned the case till August 25.
Maimoona said Saeed was detained without a cogent reason and that the notification was issued by the government in violation of various provisions of the 1973 Constitution.
A separate application before the Punjab home secretary seeking the withdrawal of the detention order argued that the notification was not issued by the competent authority as it did not bear the signatures of any of the officers.
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