Delhi High Court grants one-week interim bail to Engineer Rashid to visit ailing father

India: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted one-week interim bail to jailed Lok Sabha member from Jammu and Kashmir, Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer Rashid, to enable him to visit his ailing father.

A bench of justices Prathiba M Singh and Madhu Jain, however, clarified that during this period, Rashid, who is undergoing jail term in a terror funding case, could either visit the hospital where his father is being treated or remain at home.

The bench further ordered that two police officials would accompany him in plainclothes at all times and Rashid shall not bear the cost of their travel.

During the one-week period, there shall not be any “undue visitors” except immediate family members, it added.

The court passed the order while dealing with Rashid’s appeal against a trial court’s April 24 decision refusing to grant him interim bail.

The Baramulla MP, who defeated Omar Abdullah in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, is facing trial in the terror funding case with allegations that he funded separatists and terror groups in Jammu and Kashmir.

He has been lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail since 2019 after the NIA arrested him in the 2017 terror-funding case.