Delhi HC grants interim bail to Sheikh Abdul Rashid for father?s rituals

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted interim bail from June 25 to June 30 to jailed Baramulla MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer Rashid to enable him to attend his father?s post death rituals.

A bench of Justices Prathiba M Singh and Madhu Jain, however, asked Rashid to surrender on June 2 after the expiry of the interim bail granted to him on May 18 to attend his father?s last rites.

Rashid?s senior counsel urged the court to extend the interim bail given to the parliamentarian, who is facing terror-funding



charges, to enable him to attend certain ceremonies to be observed in Srinagar on the 40th day of his father?s burial.

?After the interim bail (granted on May 18) expires on June 2, the appellant shall surrender. However, for the period from June 25 to June 30, interim bail is again granted in order to enable the appellant to participate in the rites and ceremonies on the 40th day,? the court ordered.

The court stated that the interim bail from June 25-30 will have the same conditions as Rashid?s current release period.