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Next hearing in Mumbai attack case set for Mar 6 in Pak court
Rezaul H Laskar
Islamabad, Feb 20 (PTI) The hearing in the Mumbai attack
case against LeT's operations chief Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and
six other suspects could not take place on Saturday in a
Pakistani anti-terror court in Rawalpindi in view of local Bar
Council elections and the trial will now resume on March 6.
The proceedings, scheduled for Saturday, could not take
place because of the Bar Council elections, sources said.
They said it was also not possible to schedule the
hearing for next Saturday on February 27 as it would be a
public holiday in view of Eid-e Milad-un Nabi, Prophet
Mohammad's birth anniversary.
So, the next hearing in the Mumbai attack case had now
been set for March 6, the sources said.
Last week also, the trial, which was being held within
high-security Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, was adjourned without
proceedings as the judge was busy with another official work.
The accused -- Lakhvi, Zarar Shah, Abu al-Qama, Hamad
Amin Sadiq, Shahid Jamil Riaz, Jamil Ahmed and Younas Anjum --
were last year formally charged with planning and helping
execute the assault on India's financial hub in November 2008.
Meanwhile, Lakhvi's lawyer Khwaja Sultan told PTI in
Lahore that he believed the proceedings in the anti-terrorism
court could not go ahead till a bench of the Lahore High Court
gave its verdict on Lakhvi's appeal for acquittal.
The two judges of the Rawalpindi-based bench of the High
Court had reserved their verdict on Lakhvi's application, but
were subsequently recalled to Lahore. No new judges have been
appointed in their place. PTI
Islamabad, Feb 20 (PTI) The hearing in the Mumbai attack
case against LeT's operations chief Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and
six other suspects could not take place on Saturday in a
Pakistani anti-terror court in Rawalpindi in view of local Bar
Council elections and the trial will now resume on March 6.
The proceedings, scheduled for Saturday, could not take
place because of the Bar Council elections, sources said.
They said it was also not possible to schedule the
hearing for next Saturday on February 27 as it would be a
public holiday in view of Eid-e Milad-un Nabi, Prophet
Mohammad's birth anniversary.
So, the next hearing in the Mumbai attack case had now
been set for March 6, the sources said.
Last week also, the trial, which was being held within
high-security Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, was adjourned without
proceedings as the judge was busy with another official work.
The accused -- Lakhvi, Zarar Shah, Abu al-Qama, Hamad
Amin Sadiq, Shahid Jamil Riaz, Jamil Ahmed and Younas Anjum --
were last year formally charged with planning and helping
execute the assault on India's financial hub in November 2008.
Meanwhile, Lakhvi's lawyer Khwaja Sultan told PTI in
Lahore that he believed the proceedings in the anti-terrorism
court could not go ahead till a bench of the Lahore High Court
gave its verdict on Lakhvi's appeal for acquittal.
The two judges of the Rawalpindi-based bench of the High
Court had reserved their verdict on Lakhvi's application, but
were subsequently recalled to Lahore. No new judges have been
appointed in their place. PTI