NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: A Delhi courtroom has sought NIA‘s response on jailed Baramulla MP and Awami Ittehad Social gathering president Abdul Rashid Sheikh’s plea looking for common bail forward of the upcoming meeting elections in Jammu and Kashmir, beginning Sept 18.
Further periods decide Chander Jit Singh of Patiala Home courts issued discover to NIA on Tuesday, directing the company to file its response by Aug 28, when the bail software will probably be taken up for listening to.
Sheikh, who’s popularly referred to as Engineer Rashid, contested as an unbiased candidate and defeated Omar Abdullah within the parliamentary elections earlier this yr. Lodged in Delhi’s Tihar jail since 2019 underneath UAPA in a terror funding case, he was granted custody parole to take oath as a Lok Sabha member on July 5. His supporters and social gathering staff are hopeful he could be launched on parole and lead their marketing campaign within the meeting polls.
Rashid’s title had cropped up within the 2017 terror funding case in the course of the investigation of Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Watali, who was arrested by NIA for funding terrorist teams and separatists in Kashmir. NIA had filed a chargesheet towards a number of people, together with JKLF chairman Yasin Malik, Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed and Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, within the case. Malik was awarded life imprisonment by a trial courtroom in 2022, after he pleaded responsible to the fees.
Further periods decide Chander Jit Singh of Patiala Home courts issued discover to NIA on Tuesday, directing the company to file its response by Aug 28, when the bail software will probably be taken up for listening to.
Sheikh, who’s popularly referred to as Engineer Rashid, contested as an unbiased candidate and defeated Omar Abdullah within the parliamentary elections earlier this yr. Lodged in Delhi’s Tihar jail since 2019 underneath UAPA in a terror funding case, he was granted custody parole to take oath as a Lok Sabha member on July 5. His supporters and social gathering staff are hopeful he could be launched on parole and lead their marketing campaign within the meeting polls.
Rashid’s title had cropped up within the 2017 terror funding case in the course of the investigation of Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Watali, who was arrested by NIA for funding terrorist teams and separatists in Kashmir. NIA had filed a chargesheet towards a number of people, together with JKLF chairman Yasin Malik, Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed and Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, within the case. Malik was awarded life imprisonment by a trial courtroom in 2022, after he pleaded responsible to the fees.
