New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday (February 11) listed for hearing on February 24 a plea by jailed Bramulla Lok Sabha Member of Parliament (MP) Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, seeking quick disposal of his regular bail plea in a terror funding case pending over the issue of jurisdiction of the court to hear his plea.
Justice Vikas Mahajan deferred the hearing on Rashid’s bail plea after the counsel representing the high court administration informed him that the Supreme Court on Monday clarified that the NIA court dealing with the case could hear the bail plea.
Rashid has sought quick disposal of his pending bail plea
Rashid, who is currently lodged in judicial custody in Tihar Jail, has moved the High Court seeking a direction from the High Court for quick disposal of his bail plea pending before a trial court in the terror funding case.
Rashid has submitted before the High Court that he had been left in limbo and without remedy after the NIA court, which was hearing his regular bail plea, sent the matter back on the ground that it was not a special MP/MLA court to hear the matter since he was now a lawmaker.
High Court earlier issued notice to its registrar general
The High Court had on February 4 issued notice to its registrar general for the clarification on the issue of designation of a court to hear Rashid’s bail plea in a terror-funding case.
The trial court earlier reserved its judgment on Rashid’s regular bail plea after hearing arguments from parties and later it sent the case back to the District Judge requesting for transfer of the case to a court designated to try lawmakers, since Rashid was now an MP.
High Court on Monday allowed two-day custody parole to Rashid
The High Court on February 10 allowed two-day custody parole to Rashid to attend the ongoing Parliament session with certain conditions imposed on him and said that he would be ferried to Lok Sabha and back on February 11 and 13, and the security inside Parliament would be decided in consultation with the secretary general.
