Islamabad: Leader of Pakistan's banned militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and prime suspect in the attack on the Indian Parliament last year Hafeez Muhammad Saeed has been released from house arrest.

"The police guard has been removed from Hafiz Saeed's residence in Johar Town since yesterday (November 19) afternoon after receiving court orders," Yahya Mujahid, the spokesman for Jamaat al-Dawat, an organisation headed by Saeed, said.

Saeed, who resigned as the chief of Lashkar after the "crackdown" on his outfit by Pakistan government in the aftermath of the Indian Parliament attack last year, was put under house arrest in the Eastern city of Lahore since October 31.

He was released following orders of the Lahore High Court. On November 18, the High court ruled that the detention of Saeed, a professor of Islamic studies in Lahore Engineering college was illegal, as he had not been charged with any crime.

"Saeed should be released forthwith if not required in any case," the judge said.

For the past few months he was released from jail and kept in house arrest with the government declaring his house in Lahore as a sub-jail.

Reports from Pakistan's Punjab province said that leader of banned outfit Jaish-e- Mohammad (JeM) and one of the three militants freed by India to end the Kandahar hijacking of an Indian Airlines aircraft in 1999, Masood Azhar is also likely to be released from house arrest.

PTI