LAHORE, Aug 29: The police again arrested Jamaatud Daawa Pakistan amir Hafiz Muhammad Saeed in an operation after midnight on Monday. The Daawa leader was re-arrested and sent to the Kot Lakhpat Jail where he was put under a two-month detention through an order issued by the home department.

The Daawa leader was arrested soon after he reached his residence in Jauhar Town after being released from the canal rest house in Sheikhupura under an order issued by the Lahore High Court earlier in the day (on Monday).

The LHC in its decision termed Hafiz Saeed’s detention as illegal while accepting the writ petition filed by his wife Maimoona Saeed. She had challenged her husband’s detention.

Family sources say a group of about 200 policemen, headed by the SP of the area, cordoned off the house and called out Hafiz Saeed and took him into custody. Sources say he was arrested under section 3 of the MPO and the order was only read out to the family and not formally served.

The family also said they were unable to locate the Daawa leader in the jail on Tuesday, expressing fear that he might have been taken elsewhere — either to the canal rest house in Sheikhupura or loodged in the jail cell.

His counsel, advocate Nazir Ahmad Ghazi, said he was moving the LHC against

the arrest on Wednesday, although a formal detention order was not made available so far.

He said he would also move the LHC in a contempt of court petition because the action taken by the Punjab government clearly constituted the offence.

He said the police action hours after the Daawa leader was released showed that the home department had already prepared another detention order. Such an act was a gross violation of the superior court’s order that should not go unnoticed.

Meanwhile, sources confirmed that Hafiz Saeed was taken to the Sheikhupura rest house and confined there.