New Delhi, Jul 1 (PTI) Jailed Kashmiri chief and newly elected MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly generally known as Engineer Rashid, is prone to take oath on July 5 after the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) on Monday gave its consent earlier than a particular court docket. Further Classes Choose Chander Jit Singh will move an order on the matter on Tuesday. The NIA’s counsel stated Rashid’s oath taking must be topic to some situations like not chatting with the media. He additionally stated Rashid, who’s in Tihar Jail, should full the method inside a day. the whole lot inside a day.
Rashid, an Unbiased MP from Baramulla who has been arrested in a 2017 Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case, had moved the court docket searching for interim bail, or custody parole within the different, to take oath and carry out his parliamentary features. On June 22, a particular court docket right here had adjourned the matter and requested the NIA to file its response.
The company has been consulting with Parliament and jail authorities on the matter.
Whereas Rashid’s counsel had cited AAP chief Sanjay Singh being granted custody parole to take oath as a Rajya Sabha MP, the court docket famous that Rashid’s expenses have been completely different.
This session of Parliament is scheduled to finish on July 3. Procedures permit MPs to take oath within the speaker’s chamber even when Parliament just isn’t in session.
Rashid has been in custody since August 2019 underneath the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act for his alleged involvement within the terror funding case.
His identify surfaced throughout the probe of Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Watali, who was arrested for allegedly financing terrorist teams and separatists within the Kashmir Valley.
The NIA had earlier filed a chargesheet towards a number of people, together with Kashmiri separatist chief Yasin Malik, Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed, and Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin in reference to the case.
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