A Pakistani court on Friday dismissed the plea of Zaki-ur-Rehman lakhvi against his detention under a public security act, keeping the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attack in jail till mid-April. lahore High Court judge Mahmood Maqbool Bajwa dismissed 55-year-old lakhvi’s plea against his detention under Maintenance of Public Ordinance (MPO) by the Punjab government on March 14.
The judge had reserved his judgement early in the day after hearing the arguments of lakhvi’s counsel advocate Raja Rizwan Abbasi and law officer Khawar Ikram Bhatti. “The court issued a short order announcing dismissal of lakhvi’s petition. The detailed issue will be issued later,” a court official told PTI. lakhvi had yesterday challenged his detention in the lHC and prayed to it set aside the Punjab home department’s order for being “illegal and a violation of Islamabad High Court order”. “The government had detained my client for four times since he got bail in the Mumbai attack case,” Abbasi said.