Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez granted bail

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted bail to Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez more than four years after he was arrested by the National Investigation Agency under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, Live Law reported.

A division bench allowed Parvez’s challenge to a December 2024 order by a trial court that denied him bail.

Parvez was arrested in November 2021 under sections of the anti-terror law pertaining to alleged membership of a terrorist organisation and terror funding.

He was also charged under sections of the Indian Penal Code pertaining to waging, attempting to wage, abetting waging of war against the government, recruiting of a person for a terrorist act and criminal conspiracy.

Parvez is accused of supporting terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba’s activities through a network of overground workers, Bar and Bench reported.

The National Investigation Agency accused him of recruiting operatives, and gathering information about security forces and military installations.

Parvez was arrested during the investigation, although he was not named in the original first information report, Live Law reported.

He is associated with the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, a union of nonprofit campaign and advocacy organisations in Srinagar.

In his bail appeal, Parvez said that he was a “factual stranger” to the alleged conspiracy and highlighted that the investigators had failed to establish any contact between him and operatives of the terror...

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