J&K MP Engineer Rashid denied bail in ‘terror funding case’
Engineer Rashid, who defeated J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in the Baramulla seat by over two lakh votes in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, has been in Delhi’s Tihar Jail since 2019 in a terror funding case.
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Engineer Rashid was arrested on August 9, 2019, four days after the abrogation of Article 370 and the removal of J-K’s special status. (Express Photo)A Delhi court on Friday denied regular bail to jailed Jammu and Kashmir MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid.
Rashid, who defeated J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in the Baramulla seat by over two lakh votes in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, has been in Delhi’s Tihar Jail since 2019 in a terror funding case.
Additional Sessions Judge Chander Jit Singh of Patiala House Court, who is hearing the case, had on September 10 last year granted Rashid interim bail to campaign for the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. Rashid later surrendered in Tihar Jail on October 27.
On February 24, 2025, the Delhi High Court requested the trial court to expeditiously dispose of Rashid’s bail plea.
Earlier in February, the HC had granted Rashid two-day custody parole allowing him to attend parliamentary proceedings. In Parliament, he spoke for just a minute.
He was arrested on August 9, 2019, four days after the abrogation of Article 370 and the removal of J&K’s special status. Almost the entire political leadership of Kashmir, including three former chief ministers, was also placed under detention. Rashid was named asan accused in the second supplementary chargesheet filed on October 4, 2019.
According to the NIA, he used various public platforms to “propagate the ideology of separatism and secessionism”, was closely associated with various terrorist organisations and wanted to “legitimise” the United Jihad Council (UJC), a platform of anti-India militant groups in J&K.
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