<p>The proceedings, scheduled for today, could not take place because of the Bar Council elections, sources said.<br /><br />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.<br />So, the next hearing in the Mumbai attack case had now been set for March 6, the sources said.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br />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.<br /><br />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.</p>
<p>The proceedings, scheduled for today, could not take place because of the Bar Council elections, sources said.<br /><br />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.<br />So, the next hearing in the Mumbai attack case had now been set for March 6, the sources said.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br />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.<br /><br />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.</p>