Islamabad:Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi was released from Adiala Jail Friday (today), after the government failed to present sensitive records against him in the court.
Justice Muhammad Anwarul Haq of Lahore High Court suspended the detention of Lakhvi (55) under Maintenance of Public Order.The judge ordered Lakhvi to submit two surety bonds worth Rs.1 million each for his release.
“The law officer had submitted important information about Lakhvi, but the court did not accept this and declared the evidence unsatisfactory,” an official of LHC told PTI.
“The government is left with no other ‘legal option’ but to release his client after the LHC suspended his detention. Neither the government nor the Adiala Jail authorities can violate the court’s order this time,” he said, adding the jail authorities should release Lakhvi by tomorrow as the court order is being submitted to them.
“Neither the federal nor Punjab governments can issue another detention order of Lakhvi after the verdicts of the Islamabad High Court and Lahore High Court against his detention. It will be a contempt of court if the government issues another detention order,” he said.
The government, he said, also could not arrest his client in any other case as the IHC had stopped it from doing so without bringing the matter to its notice.
Lakhvi and six others have been charged with planning and executing the 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people and wounding over 300.
