New Delhi: Newly elected Lok Sabha MP from north Kashmir Sheikh Abdul Rashid, arrested in a 2017 Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case, didn’t safe interim bail on Saturday with a particular courtroom right here adjourning the matter until July 1.
The courtroom requested the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) to file a response to to his plea and in addition inform it about when he may take an oath as an MP.
The newly elected Lok Sabha MPs are scheduled to take oath on June 24, 25 and 26.
In the course of the listening to, Rashid’s counsel sought custody parole for him to take oath and cited a current order the place AAP chief Sanjay Singh, an accused within the Delhi excise “rip-off” cash laundering case, was allowed similar aid to take oath as a Rajya Sabha MP lately.
Extra Classes Decide Kiran Gupta, nonetheless, noticed that the costs levelled towards Rashid, popularly often known as Engineer Rashid, have been on a unique footing from these confronted by the AAP chief.
The NIA submitted it’s within the means of consulting Parliament and Tihar jail authorities “concerning the prayer sought by the applicant for his oath ceremony.” “Let reply, if any, be filed by NIA on 01.07.2024 earlier than the involved Court docket. As directed vide order dated 18.06.2024, NIA can be directed to apprise the courtroom in regards to the date on which the applicant / accused might take Oath as Member of Parliament.
“Put up for consideration earlier than the involved courtroom on 01.07.2024 at 11 am,” the decide mentioned the its order.
The decide allowed the NIA’s prayer for time to file its reply.
Advocate Vikhyat Oberoi argued for releasing Rashid on bail, asserting, “He’s the one that gained the election with a overwhelming majority. Folks love him and wish him to combat in parliament democratically.
“It’s my (Rashid’s) constitutional obligation to take oath. I’m compelled to beg earlier than them for taking an oath. That is actually shameful. The courtroom might direct the jail authorities to contact the Lok Sabha Secretariat, direct NIA to contact the Lok Sabha Secretariat, or direct the Lok Sabha Secretariat to specify the date on which Rashid might take oath,” the counsel mentioned.
Rashid has moved the courtroom searching for interim bail, or custody parole within the various, to take oath and carry out his parliamentary features.
Rashid has been in jail since 2019 after he was charged by the NIA underneath the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act for his alleged involvement in a terror funding case. He’s at the moment lodged in Tihar jail.
The previous MLA’s title cropped up throughout the investigation of Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Watali, who the NIA had arrested for allegedly funding terrorist teams and separatists within the Kashmir valley.
The NIA had filed a cost sheet towards a number of people, together with Kashmiri separatist chief Yasin Malik, Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed and Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin within the case. Malik was awarded life imprisonment by a trial courtroom in 2022 after he pleaded responsible to the costs.
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