In this April 11, 2011 file photo, Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed, attends a ceremony in Islamabad, Pakistan.
The United States has announced a bounty of $10 million dollar for the arrest of Hafiz Saeed, the chief of Pakistan-based Jamaat-ud-Dawa, for allegedly masterminding the 2008 attacks in India’s financial capital Mumbai.
The attacks left 166 people dead in Mumbai on November 26, 2008.
US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, who is on a four-day visit to India, disclosed this while addressing a gathering at the American Centre in New Delhi Monday night.
She was replying to a question on what steps the US has taken to bring the people responsible for the attacks to justice, reports our New Delhi correspondent.
Saeed, the founder of terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, is on India's most wanted list. India has already asked Pakistan to hand him over.
The Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief was placed under house arrest in late 2009, after India accused him of masterminding the 2008 attacks.
The High Court in Lahore however quashed all cases filed against Saeed and set him free. The court also declared the activities of Jamaat-ud-Dawa legal and said it could work freely in Pakistan.
Sherman met Indian government officials including Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai on Monday and discussed a host of key issues pertaining to Indo-US ties.
They also discussed the agenda for the Indo-US Strategic Dialogue to be held in Washington in June this year.
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