Delhi HC grants interim bail to Engineer Rashid to attend father’s funeral

The Delhi High Court connected Monday (May 18, 2026) granted interim bail till June 2 to Baramulla MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known arsenic Engineer Rashid, who is lodged successful Tihar Jail successful a terror-funding case, following his father’s demise.

A Bench of Justices Prathiba M. Singh and Madhu Jain directed that Rashid beryllium accompanied by astatine slightest 2 constabulary officials successful plainclothes from the infinitesimal helium leaves the jailhouse until his instrumentality from Srinagar.

The tribunal allowed him to sojourn the burial crushed oregon immoderate different spot of worship, but restricted his question to his residence successful Srinagar and Langate, preventing him from travelling elsewhere.

Rashid’s father, who was undergoing attraction astatine AIIMS, passed distant connected the intervening nighttime of Sunday (May 17, 2026) and Monday (May 18).

The tribunal further ordered that immoderate gathering betwixt Rashid and persons different than his contiguous household members shall instrumentality spot lone successful the beingness of the constabulary officials and that helium could usage lone 1 mobile telephone number, which would beryllium fixed to the investigating serviceman and kept switched connected astatine each times.

Rashid, accused of backing separatists and panic groups successful Jammu and Kashmir, has been lodged successful Delhi’s Tihar Jail since 2019 aft the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested him successful the 2017 case.