Delhi HC grants interim bail to Engineer Rashid

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted one-week interim bail to jailed Lok Sabha member from Jammu and Kashmir, Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer Rashid, to enable him to visit his ailing father.

A bench of justices Prathiba M Singh and Madhu Jain, however, clarified that during this period, Rashid, who is undergoing jail term in a terror funding case, could either visit the hospital where his father is being treated or remain at home.

The bench further ordered that two police officials would accompany him in plainclothes at all times and Rashid shall not bear the cost of their travel.

During the one-week period, there shall not be any “undue visitors” except immediate.