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26/11: India reacts strongly to Lakhvi release in Pakistan

| | Dec 29, 2014, at 08:43 pm
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IBNS): India is reacting strongly to reports that Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi, who was granted bail by a court in Pakistan due to legal loopholes in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case in which he is a main accused, could walk free on Monday.

An NDTV report quoting unnamed sources in the Indian government said "Islamabad High Court order on Lakhvi calls into question entire approach to terror."

India will raise the issue diplomatically.

An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Islamabad granted him bail. The bail order as quoted in Dawn newspaper said "weak evidence, the registration of the FIR invoking irrelevant sections against the suspect, the ‘never-ending’ trial and hearsay evidence went in favour of the accused."

Lakhvi was given bail by the court in Islamabad  which said the prosecution could not prove enough against him.

Lakhvi was in Aadiyala jail in Rawalpindi since his arrest in 2009.

The bail had triggered a furious response from India, who rejected freeing Lakhvi.

A series of twelve coordinated shooting and bombing attacks in Nov 2008 across Mumbai in hotels, religious place, railway station carried out by Pakistani members of Lashkar-e-Taiba.had killed 164 people and wounded at least 308.

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