The international outrage over a Pakistan court granting bail to Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi seems to have worked. The Pakistan government took him into custody under the Maintenance of Public Order.

This comes a day after an anti-terrorism court granted bail to the mastermind and handler of the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai.

Lakhvi, who was involved in planning, financing and executing the attacks on Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, was granted bail yesterday in the afternoon. The Pakistan government has also decided to appeal against the bail in a high court.

Yesterday, India called upon Pakistan to immediately take steps to reverse the decision to grant bail to the LeT terrorist.

The government asserted that there can be no selective approaches to terrorism. The grant of bail to Lakhvi will serve as a reassurance to terrorists who perpetrate heinous crimes.

"Given the scale of the tragedy Pakistan faced in recent days, it is incumbent on it to realise no compromise can ever be made with terrorists. India can't accept that Zaki-ur Lakhvi, a key conspirator of the Mumbai attacks and a UN designated terrorist, is being released on bail," the ministry of external affairs said.

MEA spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said, "99 per cent evidence for 26/11 is in Pakistan, the 1% we have has been handed to Pakistan. It is incumbent on the government of Pakistan to provide us that evidence."