NEW DELHI: The Patiala Home Court docket in Delhi on Tuesday prolonged the interim bail of Engineer Rashid, an impartial Lok Sabha MP from Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir, until October 28 in reference to a terror funding case. The courtroom granted the extension on medical grounds, referring to Rashid’s father.
Further Classes Decide Chander Jit Singh, whereas extending the interim bail, directed Rashid to give up earlier than the jail authorities by 12 midday on October 28, 2024. The courtroom additionally deferred the pronouncement of its order on his common bail plea till the identical date.
The identical decide had beforehand granted Rashid interim bail on September 10 to permit him to marketing campaign for the Jammu and Kashmir Meeting elections, and has now postponed the choice on his common bail plea. The courtroom famous that the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) had verified the medical paperwork and didn’t oppose the extension of interim bail sought by the applicant.
The elections for the 90-member Jammu and Kashmir Meeting had been performed in three phases from September 18 to October 1, with the outcomes introduced on October 8. The Nationwide Convention-Congress alliance secured 48 seats, adopted by the BJP with 29 seats. In 2005, Engineer Rashid was arrested by the Particular Operations Group (SOG) in Srinagar for allegedly supporting militants and was held for 3 months and 17 days. He confronted prices of anti-national actions and was incarcerated in Cargo, Humhama, and Raj Bagh prisons. Nevertheless, the Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace of Srinagar later dropped all prices in opposition to him on humanitarian grounds.
In August 2019, Rashid was once more arrested underneath the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA). Throughout his incarceration, he filed his nomination for the 2024 parliamentary elections from jail and gained by a margin of 204,000 votes, defeating former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
