The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a government appeal and upheld a lower court’s decision last year to release an Islamist militant, whom India accuses of masterminding the November 2008 assault on Mumbai. India had expressed dismay over the earlier decision to free Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, left, founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group, though analysts say the Supreme Court ruling is unlikely to derail a recent agreement between the leaders of the two countries to begin talks on long-running disputes.

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