Summary The government had detained Lakhvi under Public Maintenance Order after the ATC approved his bail.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) - Islamabad High Court on Monday suspended the notification of detention of Zaki Ur Rehman Lakhvi in the Mumbai attacks case, setting stage for his release.
Lakhvi challenged his detention under MPO in the Islamabad High Court on Friday after the government rejected his plea for release.
On December 18, Islamabad Anti-Terrorism Court Judge Kausar Abbas Zaidi granted bail to Lakhvi citing lack of evidence against him in the Mumbai attacks case, but before he could be released from jail, the government detained him for three more months under Public Maintenance Order in Adyala Jail where the trial is being held.
The ATC judge had cited “weak evidence, the registration of the FIR invoking irrelevant sections and hearsay evidence against the suspect” as the reasons for granting bail to Lakhvi.
ATC Judge Zaidi in his written order said the evidence against 54-year-old accused was based on the statements of officials of the Crime Investigation Department (CID) which apparently were ‘insufficient’ to refuse him bail.
The main evidence on the basis of which Lakhvi was charged in the case was the confessional statement of Ajmal Kasab, who has been executed in an Indian jail on November 21, 2012, the order said.
