Justice Noor ul Haq Qureshi of
Islamabad High Court in pakistan has dismissed the notification for the
detention of 26/11 accused and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Zaki-ur-Rehman
Lakhvi. The court has issued an interim order to release Lakhvi.
The court has said that that
Pakistan government's order for the detention can't be deemed legal as Lakhvi
had been granted bail by the anti-terror court and anti-terror court's decision
can't be reversed by civil court.
Indian Ministry of External
Affairs has said that it will take the issue to Pakistan.
Lakhvi is one of the Pakistani
nationals who are accused of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, which rendered 166
people dead and left several injured. A number of foreign nationals were also
amongst the victims.
An Islamabad anti-terror court
granted him bail on 18 December citing lack of evidence. But before he could be
released from jail, the government of Pakistan, under serious pressure from
Indian government, detained him for 3 months under Maintenance of Public Order
act.
The bail granted to Lakhvi drew
severe criticism from all quarters of the world especially from India. PM Modi
called it "traumatizing for every Indian."
Lakhvi and six other Pakistani
nationals - Abdul Wajid, Mazhar Iqbal, Hamad Amin Sadiq, Shahid Jameel Riaz,
Jamil Ahmed and Younis Anjum - have been charged with plotting and executing
the gory attack on the financial capital of India. The trial is underway since
2009.
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