26/11 plotter Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, recently released on bail in Pakistan, seeks exemption from court appearance citing security reasons.

Lakhvi and six others have been charged with planning and executing the Mumbai attack in November, 2008 that left 166 people dead.

Lakhvi, 55, a close relative of LeT founder and Jamaat-Ud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, was arrested in December 2008 and was indicted along with the six others on November 25, 2009 in connection with the 26/11 attack case. The trial has been underway since 2009.

A Pakistani court had on April 9 set free Lakhvi, a development which India said eroded the value of assurances repeatedly conveyed to it by Pakistan on cross-border terrorism.

On May 3, India sought the United Nations intervention in Lakhvi's release saying it was in violation of the norms of the global body and it should raise the matter with Pakistan.