Lakhvi files another petition challenging detention order

Published March 25, 2015
Lakhvi adopted the stance that the Home Secretary should be advised to handle his case and said that detaining him is illegal and amounts to contempt of the ruling made earlier by the Islamabad High Court ─ AFP/File
Lakhvi adopted the stance that the Home Secretary should be advised to handle his case and said that detaining him is illegal and amounts to contempt of the ruling made earlier by the Islamabad High Court ─ AFP/File

LAHORE: One of the key accused in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi has filed another petition with the Lahore High Court (LHC) challenging the detention order against him.

He adopted the stance that the Home Secretary should be advised to handle his case and said that detaining him is illegal and amounts to contempt of the ruling issued earlier by the Islamabad High Court (IHC).

LHC officials forwarded the request for a hearing to the Chief Justice LHC.

The LHC had, last Friday, rejected Lakhvi's previous petition challenging the detention order against him.

Also read: LHC rejects Lakhvi's petition challenging detention order

Justice Mahmood Maqbool Bajwa had said after last week's hearing that in light of recent circumstances, it was possible that Lakhvi's release could cause turmoil in the country.

On Mar 13, the third-time detention orders on Lakhvi were declared void by the IHC ─ a day after which the Punjab home department reordered his detention.

Read more: Lakhvi back in detention on Punjab home dept's orders

IHC's Justice Noorul Haq Qureshi had accepted Lakhvi's appeal filed against his third-time detention orders and had ordered the immediate release of the alleged Mumbai attacks mastermind due to lack of evidence against him.

Lakhvi is among the seven persons charged with planning and helping carry out the 2008 Mumbai attacks. The six other men facing trial in Adiala Jail for their alleged involvement in Mumbai attacks are Hammad Amin Sadiq, Shahid Jamil Riaz, Younas Anjum, Jamil Ahmed, Mazhar Iqbal and Abdul Majid.

At the time of the attacks, Lakhvi was believed to be the operational head of the banned Laskhar-i-Taiba (LeT) that has been accused by India of carrying out the attacks in India's financial capital.

Lakhvi, along with Zarar Shah, was allegedly the key planner of the attack that killed 166 people.

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