Lok Sabha MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid Fails To Secure Interim Bail, Court Adjourns Case To July 1

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Friday asked NIA to respond by July 1 to an application filed by Engineer Rashid, arrested in a 2017 Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case, seeking interim bail to take oath as an MP.

Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, defeated former CM Omar Abdullah in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Baramulla.

The court of Additional Sessions Judge Kiran Gupta fixed the matter for further hearing on July 1.

Rashid has been in jail since 2019 and is presently lodged in Delhi's Tihar jail. He has moved the court seeking interim bail, or custody parole in the alternative, to take oath and perform his parliamentary functions.The newly elected MPs are scheduled to take oath on June 24, 25 and 26.