MP Engineer Rashid seeks bail, challenges framing of charges at Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought a response from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in a plea by Jammu and Kashmir MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh alias Engineer Rashid, appealing against a trial court's order refusing him bail.

- GNS News Agency

A special NIA trial court in Delhi had denied Rashid, an MP from Baramulla, regular bail on March 21.A division bench of Justices Subramonium Prasad and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar issued notice to NIA and kept the matter next for July 29.In another plea, Rashid challenged before the Delhi High Court the framing of charges against him in the NIA case. However, the plea was filed with a delay of around three years (1,104 days). The bench also issued notice on an application seeking condonation of the delay.Briefly taken up by the bench, senior advocat