MP Engineer Rashid gets interim bail to campaign for Jammu and Kashmir polls
The parliamentarian has been in jail since August 2019 in connection with a terror-funding case filed by the National Investigation Agency.
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A Delhi court on Tuesday granted MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh an interim bail in a terror-funding case.
Sheikh, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, was granted bail till October 2 to allow him to campaign for the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
Jammu and Kashmir will head for polling in three phases on September 18, September 25 and October 1. The counting of votes will take place on October 8, alongside that of Haryana. The Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir will be the first in 10 years.
Sheikh has been in jail since August 2019 in connection with a terror-funding case filed by the National Investigation Agency. He is being held under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. He is currently in Delhi’s Tihar jail.
The bail was granted by Additional Sessions Judge Chander Jit Singh of the Patiala House Court, Sheikh’s lawyer Vikhyat Oberoi told Scroll.
The 57-year-old is the Lok Sabha MP from Kashmir’s Baramulla seat.
In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Sheikh defeated National Conference leader and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah by more than two lakh votes from the constituency. While Sheikh leads the Jammu and Kashmir Awami Ittehad Party, he had contested the general election as an independent candidate.
He was the MLA from Langate constituency between 2008 and 2018.
In July, Delhi’s Patiala...
