Notice issued in bail plea on blast outside Hafiz Saeed’s house

LAHORE: A woman arrested in connection with the blast outside Mumbai attack mastermind and JuD chief Hafiz Saeed’s house here claimed that there were no plausible grounds to detain her, prompting a local court to issue notices to the Counter-Terrorism Department and the Punjab government on Thursday seeking their reply within two weeks. Three people were killed and over 20 injured in the blast outside Saeed’s Jauhar town residence on June 23 that also damaged several houses, shops and vehicles in the area. The Punjab government claimed to have unearthed the network of all ‘10 Pakistani suspects’ involved in the blast. “However, the law enforcement agencies had arrested four suspects -- Peter Paul David, Eid Gul, Ayesha Bibi and another person. The trial of the case is yet to begin,” an official source said. Ayesha Bibi filed the post-arrest petition in the Lahore HC with a plea that she was arrested by the CTD.