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Bail to Lakhvi and Its Impact on India

Bail to Lakhvi and Its Impact on India By  Deepak Parvatiyar April 13, 2015 Rate this post Rate this Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the suspected mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai attack and top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander, has yet again been released on bail by a Pakistani court. His release on the morning of 10 April is the third time in less than four months that the dreaded UN-designated terrorist has been granted bail by the Pakistani courts. It was on 18 December 2014, when a Pakistani anti-terror court in Rawalpindi granted the bail to Lakhvi for the first time. The bail had been granted to Lakhvi against a bond of PKR 500,000 by an anti-terrorism court just two days after the Peshawar school massacre wherein 132 children and nine staff were killed by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. However, strong protest from India forced Pakistan to reorder his detention the very next day. Thereafter, on 8 January 2015, he was granted bail in a six-year-old kid