Lakhvi's detention order suspended, could leave jail

India had earlier protested angrily at the prospect of Lakhvi walking free

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Monday suspended the detention of Mumbai terror attack mastermind Zaki-ur Rahman Lakhvi.

The  Pakistan court has made a move that could allow the 26/11 mastermind  to leave jail. The order was by Justice Noor-ul-Haq Qureshi, Geo News reported.

On December 18, a court granted bail to Lakhvi, who has since 2009 been in a jail in Rawalpindi, adjacent to the capital of Islamabad. The court said that it did not have evidence to prove Lakhvi's involvement in the worst-ever terror attack in India, in which 166 people were killed in Mumbai in 2008.

Lakhvi was, however, detained under the Maintenance of Public Order on Dec 19 at Rawalpindi's central jail.

He was arrested by Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in February 2009 on the basis of the confessional statement of the lone surviving attacker Ajmal Kasab, who was executed in an Indian jail Nov 21, 2012.