NEW DELHI — The National Investigation Agency on Tuesday opposed a plea by Baramulla MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh alias Engineer Rashid in the Delhi High Court for bail in a terror funding case, alleging that he has influenced some of the prosecution witnesses. The probe agency contended that two of the prosecution witnesses, who are […]
NEW DELHI — The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the National Investigation Agency whether Baramulla MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer Rashid, who is in jail in a terror funding case, could be released on bail with stringent conditions. A bench of Justices Prathiba M Singh and Vikas Mahajan asked the NIA counsel to […]
SRINAGAR — The Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) on Saturday appealed to Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant to consider the bail plea of Baramulla Lok Sabha MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid with compassion, urgency and constitutional fairness, claiming that he has been wrongly implicated in a terror-funding case. Addressing a press conference on Rashid’s imprisonment […]
SRINAGAR — The Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) on Friday decided to continue Sheikh Abdul Rashid as a Member of Parliament after he had expressed his intent to quit. The AIP conducted a secret ballot poll on the question of whether the Baramulla MP, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, should continue or not in the Parliament. […]
SRINAGAR — Incarcerated Baramulla MP Engineer Rashid on Sunday announced that he will resign from the Lok Sabha as he is not able to attend to the affairs of his constituency, but his Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) said it would consult the people before taking the final call on the issue. The AIP has decided […]
SRINAGAR — The Delhi high court on Monday granted interim bail until June 2 to jailed Baramulla member of Parliament and Awami Itihaad Party (AIP) chief Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, to enable him to attend the last rites of his father. Haji Khazir Mohammad Sheikh, 85, passed away at the All […]
SRINAGAR — The father of jailed Baramulla MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid, also known as Engineer Rashid, died at a hospital in Delhi on Monday. He was 85. “Haji Khazir Mohammad Sheikh, father of Member of Parliament, Baramulla, Engineer Rashid, is no more,” Awami Itihaad Party (AIP) chief spokesperson Inam Un Nabi said here. Nabi appealed […]
NEW DELHI — The Delhi High Court on Tuesday permitted jailed Baramulla MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer Rashid to meet his ailing father in AIIMS Delhi for 12 hours a day till May 10. Modifying its earlier order granting interim bail to Rashid in a terror funding case to enable him to see his […]
SRINAGAR — Jailed Lok Sabha member Sheikh Abdul Rashid on Thursday arrived here to meet his ailing father after the Delhi High Court granted him a week’s interim bail, officials said. Rashid, alias Engineer Rashid, the Lok Sabha MP from Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla, arrived at the Srinagar airport here on Thursday afternoon and drove […]
NEW DELHI — 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 […]