Rashid Engineer sent to four days NIA custody

New Delhi, August 10

A Delhi court sent former Jammu and Kashmir legislator Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer Rashid to the National Investigation Agency’s custody in a terror-funding case involving 26/11 master mind Hafiz Saeed.

Former Member Legislative Assembly Engineer was produced before Duty Magistrate Dharmender Singh, who sent him to NIA’s custody for four days although the agency asked for 10 days. He will now be produced before the court on August 14.

Engineer has been accused of taking money from Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Watali.

Several separatist leaders, including Shabbir Shah, Masrat Alam and Asiya Andrabi, are already in judicial custody in connection with the Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case. IANS