Terror funding case: Delhi HC refuses urgent hearing to jailed J-K MP Sheikh Rashid
New Delhi, Mar 27 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Thursday refused to grant an urgent hearing to Jammu and Kashmir MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh, arrested in a terror funding case, seeking waiver of condition to bear travel expenses for attending the ongoing Parliament session “in-custody”.
The plea was mentioned for urgent hearing during the day before a bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Tushar Rao Gedela, which said if the application has been filed, it will come up on Friday on its own.
The counsel said he was seeking deletion of the condition to bear all expenses for travel and other arrangements and not seeking reduction in the amount given by the prison authorities.
“You file the application and it will come up for hearing tomorrow on its own. We have made it clear and we can’t be more clearer,” the bench said.
Rashid, in his application, said the order granting him permission to attend Parliament was uploaded on the court’s website on March 26 afternoon and in the evening his counsel received an email from the jail authorities that he is required to pay around Rs 1.45 lakh each day for travel and related arrangements. This would make a total of Rs 8.74 lakh for six days, the plea said.
He said the applicant is not in a financial position to bear this “excessively high” cost and he is going to fulfil his constitutional duties and ought not to be prejudiced with such high costs.
A division bench of the high court, on March 25, had allowed the Baramulla MP to attend the ongoing Parliament session “in-custody” till April 4 and rejected NIA’s apprehension that he was a flight risk.
