Firefighters try to douse flames at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai in the 2008 attack. Source: AP

Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi is accused of planning the 60-hour siege on India’s commercial capital that left 166 people dead and was blamed on the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba.

A judge in an Islamabad anti-terror court granted Lakhvi bail late on Thursday, prompting anger in neighbouring India, which urged the Pakistani government to appeal.

“I am completing all the legal formalities and then I will challenge this order in Islamabad on Monday,” prosecutor Mohammad Azhar Chaudhry said.

Lakhvi remained in the high security Adyala prison in garrison city of Rawalpindi even after the court ruling.

“Today I am trying to get a copy of the written (bail) order and then I will file an appeal in ­Islamabad high court,” Mr Chaudhry said.

AFP