The Federal Investigation Agency's prosecutor opposed the bail plea. However, Advocate Rizwan Abbasi, the lawyer on behalf of Lakhvi, strongly pleaded in favour of the bail that was finally granted.
The court has ordered Lakhvi to pay surety bonds worth Rs500,000 before he is released on bail. The proceedings of the case started in 2009 at the Anti – terrorism Court in Rawalpindi and the case was moved to the ATC in Islamabad the next year.
In April this year however, proceedings came to a virtual standstill as special judge of the ATC expressed his inability to carry out the trial of the seven suspects due to security reasons.