Last Updated on 10/09/2024 by Arun jain
A Delhi court has granted interim bail to MP Engineer Rashid in the terror funding case. The Patiala House Court has granted him interim bail till 2 October 2024. He has been granted interim bail to campaign for the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections. He had sought interim bail for 3 months. The order on his regular bail plea is still pending.
Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, defeated former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah from Baramulla by a huge margin in the Lok Sabha elections while in jail. Now the Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) led by him is going to contest the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir elections. Engineer Rashid’s son Abrar Rashid, who campaigned for Engineer Rashid in the parliamentary elections, is leading the election campaign of AIP. In this sequence, Rashid has sought bail from the court for election campaign.
Let us tell you that on July 5, the court had granted custody parole to Rashid to take oath after winning the Lok Sabha elections. Rashid has been in jail since 2019, when he was arrested by the NIA in a 2017 terror-funding case. Rashid is lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)