Terror funding case: Unable to characterize constituency on account of court docket rider, Engineer Rashid tells HC

Jammu and Kashmir MP #Engineer Rashid, accused in alleged terror funding case, on Wednesday (August 6, 2025) knowledgeable the #Delhi High Court that he was unable to characterize his constituency owing to a rider imposed on him to pay each day prices to attend the parliamentary session.

Appearing earlier than a bench of Justices Vivek Chaudhary and Anup Jairam Bhambhani, Mr. Rashid sought the modification of an order handed by a coordinate bench.

The order directed him to deposit ₹4 lakh with the jail authorities as journey bills for attending Parliament.

During the listening to, the bench remarked that when custody parole is granted, it’s ordinarily at the price of the particular person.

At this, senior advocate N Hariharan, showing for Mr. Rashid mentioned the situation was unreasonable as a result of “he [Rashid] is an elected representative of the people of a parliamentary constituency and unable to represent them due to inability to pay the same”.

Hariharan continued, “If the condition imposed is such that he is unable to go (to the parliament), we are interfering with the basic elements of democracy in this country.” He claimed when Mr. RRashid took the oath, “the state never asked for expenses”.

“These are conditions imposed to somehow see to it that the voice of my constituency is not heard there,” the senior lawyer added.

The counsel identified he was not looking for a evaluation of the order however “only the modification of the conditions”.

“The order is he be taken into custody, subject to conditions. I am saying the condition is erroneous amounting to defeating the order itself,” he mentioned.

The bench posted the matter for August 12.

The #Baramulla MP, who defeated #Omar Abdullah within the 2024 #Lok Sabha polls, is going through trial in a terror funding case with allegations that he funded separatists and terror teams in Jammu and Kashmir.

He has been lodged in Delhi’s #Tihar Jail since 2019 after the NIA arrested him within the 2017 terror-funding case. He was granted interim bail for one month in September final 12 months to marketing campaign within the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly election.

The NIA’s FIR alleged Mr. RRashid’s identify cropped up in the course of the interrogation of businessman and co-accused Zahoor Watali.