New Delhi: Delhi's Patiala House Court on Wednesday deferred the decision on the regular bail plea of Baramulla MP Engineer Rashid, accused in the Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case.
Additional Sessions Judge Chander Jeet Singh today said it will pronounce the order on Thursday. The court will also decide whether the case should be transferred to the MP-MLA court or not.
Earlier, the court had postponed its decision several times including on Tuesday. Before that, the decision on the bail plea was postponed to October 28.
The Patiala House Court had said on November 13 that the case registered against Rashid could be transferred to the MP-MLA court after he became an MP.
On September 10, Rashid was granted interim bail by the court to participate in the election campaign in Jammu and Kashmir, which was then extended twice, the latest on October 2. The Baramulla MP surrendered in Tihar Jail on October 28 when the bail expired.
Rashid won the Lok Sabha election 2024 by defeating former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah by about one lakh votes on the Baramulla seat.
Rashid was arrested by the NIA in 2016. On March 16, 2022, the Patiala House Court ordered the framing of charges against him besides Hafiz Saeed, Syed Salahuddin, Yasin Malik, Shabbir Shah, Masrat Alam, Zahoor Ahmed Watali, Bitta Karate, Aftab Ahmed Shah, Avtar Ahmed Shah, Naeem Khan, Bashir Ahmed Butt alias Peer Saifullah and others.
According to the NIA, organizations like Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hizbul Mujahideen, JKLF, and Jaish-e-Mohammed, with the support of Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI, carried out attacks and violence on civilians and security forces in Jammu and Kashmir. In 1993, the All Party Hurriyat Conference was established to carry out separatist activities, the NIA said.
The agency claimed that Hafiz Saeed, along with the leaders of the Hurriyat Conference, transacted funds through hawala and other channels to carry out terrorist activities. They used this money to spread unrest in the valley, attack security forces, burn schools and damage public property, the probe agency added.
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