Islamabad: A prosecutor of Pakistan government today said that he would be filing a petition in the coming week challenging the bail granted to the mastermind of the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai.
Last week, a judge in an anti-terror court had granted bail to Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, accused for 26/11 attacks in Mumbai that had left 166 people dead. Pakistan based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) had carried out that attack.
The prosecutor Mohammad Azhar Chaudhry had planned to file the appeal on Monday but had to postpone it as he had not received a written copy of the bail ruling.
Relations between India and Pakistan had worsened significantly after the Mumbai carnage.
Lakhvi was not released even after he was granted bail because the Pakistani authorities ordered his detention under public order laws following international criticism of his bail.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had termed the bail order “as a shock to all those who believe in humanity world over”.
