NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir MP Engineer Rashid on Monday moved a Delhi court seeking interim bail in a terror-funding case to attend the ongoing session of Parliament.
After Rashid urged the court of Principal District and Sessions Judge Vimal Kumar Yadav to grant him bail, the court asked the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to file a response by November 27.
Rashid, appearing virtually in court from Tihar Jail, said, "I have been elected by my people.I was not allowed to attend the last session. With folded hands, I request you that I may be granted interim bail."
Meanwhile, the counsel for Rashid and the NIA jointly sought the matter to remain in the court hearing it and not transfer it to another court. The next hearing of the matter is scheduled by the court for November 27.
Rashid, who is lodged in Tihar Jail in Delhi in a 2017 terror funding case, won the Lok Sabha elections 2024 as an independent candidate from the Baramulla constituency in Jammu and Kashmir. He defeated his nearest rival, National Conference Leader Omar Abdullah, by a margin of more than 2 lakh votes.
He won the Langate assembly segment in the 2008 and 2014 J&K elections. He unsuccessfully contested the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Rashid leads his Awami Ittehad Party but contested the Lok Sabha polls as an independent candidate.
Rashid has been in Delhi's Tihar Jail since 2019 after being arrested in 2017 by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in the 2017 terror-funding case.