New Delhi: A city court on Tuesday (October 1) extended the interim bail of Baramulla Member of Parliament (MP) Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid till October 12.
Court on September 10 granted interim bail to Rashid till October 2
The court earlier on September 10 had granted interim bail to Rashid, who faces terror funding charges, till October 2. The court had directed him to surrender before the authorities concerned on October 3.
The court, while imposing certain conditions on Rashid, including not to talk to the media about the case, had granted Rashid Interim bail to enable him to campaign in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections on a personal bond of Rs 2 lakh and one surety of the like amount. After his release from Delhi’s Tihar Jail, he campaigned in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections.
The interim bail of Rashid was extended on an application moved by his lawyer before the court.
Rashid’s lawyer Vikhyat Oberoi told news agency PTI that the court has extended Rashid’s interim bail till October 12 and he will have to surrender the next day.
Rashid has also moved a regular bail plea before the court
Rashid has also moved a plea before the court seeking regular bail in the terror funding case and the court is likely to pronounce its order on his plea on October 5.
Rashid won from Baramulla Lok Sabha seat in the 2024 general elections
Rashid contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from the Baramulla parliamentary constituency while lodged in judicial custody in Delhi’s Tihar Jail and he defeated his nearest rival Omar Abdullah, the former chief minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Rashid was lodged in judicial custody in Tihar Jail in an alleged 2017 Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) since 2019 after he was charged by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) under the provisions of UAPA in the alleged terror funding case.
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