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Vaidik’s arrest sought through Delhi High Court by Delhi based NGO

Today, Public Interest Litigation,PIL, was filed  by an NGO, Gharib Nawaz Foundation in the Delhi High Court for arrest of freelance journalist Ved Pratap Vaidik meeting Pakistani Hafiz Saeed 26/11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind  in Pakistan at his residence in Lahore recently. PIL also sought a probe by National Investigation Agency or Intelligence Bureau into the matter, defining it as a matter related to national security. Petition seeks cancellation of Vaidik’s passport. NGO has requested government to frame rules for citizens not to compromise national security while they are on tour abroad.The matter would come up for hearing next week.

PIL  has sought directions to government to “immediately arrest Vaid Pratap Vaidik on the charges of sedition, treason and to investigate the reasons of his meeting Saeed, world’s most wanted terrorist, mastermind behind 26/11 Mumbai attacks. Hafiz is a President of banned organisation, Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD).”

According to the petition, Vaidik was touring Pakistan with a group of politicians like Mani Shankar Aiyar, Salman Khurshid and others when he had met Hafiz.

The petition also submits that USA and UNO have declared Hafiz a global terrorist and a bounty of USD 10 million has been placed on his head.USA has put sanctions on Jamaat-ud-Dawa, allegedly a front for LeT.