The Delhi High Court (HC) on Friday delivered a split verdict on a plea by jailed Jammu and Kashmir MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh alias Engineer Rashid seeking modification of an order asking him to deposit approximately ` four lakh with jail authorities to attend Parliament while being in custody. While Justice Vivek Chaudhary rejected Rashid’s plea, Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani allowed it.
“We have not been able to concur with each other. We have given two separate judgments. It will have to be placed before the Chief Justice for appropriate orders,” both the judges said while pronouncing the verdict. Justice Chaudhary added, “My brother (J Bhambhani) has allowed the application. I ended up rejecting it.” The high court was hearing a plea by Rashid seeking modification of an order passed by a coordinate bench on March 25, asking him to deposit around rupees four lakh with jail authorities to attend Parliament while being in custody.
The Baramulla MP, who defeated Omar Abdullah in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, is facing trial in a terror funding case with allegations that he funded separatists and terror groups in Jammu and Kashmir. He has been lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail since 2019 after the NIA arrested him in the 2017 terror-funding case.
