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Updated : Dec 31, 2014, 11:59 AM IST
Two days after Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, the anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Thursday granted bail to LeT operations commander and 26/11 accused Zaki-ur-Rehman-Lakhvi.
Zaki-ur-Rehman-Lakhvi, who is accused of planning and abetting the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, had filed bail applications in the anti-terrorism court at Rawalpindi on Wednesday along with six other accused.
Rehman Lakhvi and six other accused had filed bail applications even as no proceedings of the case took place at the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, as lawyers were observing strike to condemn the terrorist attack on an Army-run school in Peshawar that left 141 people, mostly children, dead.
Four witnesses had earlier identified the seven accused on December 10 in an anti-terrorism court hearing in Rawalpindi, conducting trial of the Mumbai terror attacks. The witnesses from the port city of Karachi identified one of the accused who had purchased boats from them.
LeT operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, Abdul Wajid, Mazhar Iqbal, Hamad Amin Sadiq, Shahid Jameel Riaz, Jamil Ahmed and Anjum have been charged with planning, financing and executing the attacks in India's financial capital that killed 166 people in November, 2008.
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