New Delhi, May 04: Baramulla MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer Rashid on Monday urged the Delhi High Court to modify its earlier order granting him one-week interim bail in a terror funding case and allow him to be with his ailing father, who has been shifted to AIIMS Delhi from Srinagar.
A bench of Justices Prathiba M Singh and Madhu Jain, which had confined the Baramulla MP to Srinagar for the duration of his interim bail, listed the matter for hearing on Tuesday and asked him to furnish a local address.
The senior counsel for Rashid submitted that he has a flat in Delhi, which has been allotted to him as a member of Parliament.
The court, however, observed that it would not permit Rashid to stay in a place that also houses other MPs.
“That is not good enough. You can’t be in the MP house where other MPs are living. I can’t permit that. It will be a security issue,” the bench said.
The senior counsel said he would furnish the address of a private residence to the court.
The National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) counsel submitted that since the court has effectively granted custody parole in the matter and Rashid was no longer required to be outside Delhi, he should be permitted to visit his father from the jail itself, especially when the interim bail was expiring on May 6. ( PTI )
