MP Rashid gets 2-day parole for Budget session

Jammu and Kashmir MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh, alias Engineer Rashid, who is currently lodged in Tihar Jail in connection with a terror funding case, was on Monday granted a two-day custody parole to attend the ongoing Budget session on February 11 and 13.

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However, the Delhi High Court barred Rashid from using mobile phones or accessing the Internet during the parole period. Additionally, he was directed not to interact with anyone outside his parliamentary responsibilities and is prohibited from addressing the media. J&K former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti strongly reacted to the development, comparing Rashid’s extremely short parole period with that of rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim.

“Gurmeet Singh, also calling himself Ram Rahim, convicted in rape and murder charges, has been out on parole for months since his imprisonment. Meanwhile, we have the honorable MP Engineer Rashid, who has finally been granted just two days of custody parole to attend Parliament, and that too only by a High Court order. This is truly the ‘mother of democracy’ at work,” she posted on X. Rashid has been lodged in Tihar Jail since 2019 after being arrested by the NIA in a 2017 terror-funding case.