New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday granted custody parole to newly-elected Lok Sabha MP and Kashmiri leader Engineer Rashid for taking oath in the parliament.
Rashid has been lodged in jail since his arrest by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in a terror funding case 2019.
In its order, the court imposed several restrictions for Rashid’s parole, including him not speaking or interacting with the media, not having access to any phone and not interacting with anyone except authority, reported LiveLaw.
Additional Sessions Judge Chander Jit Singh of Patiala House Courts passed the order after the NIA gave consent to allow Rashid to take the oath on July 05.
The court said that while Rashid’s family members were allowed to be present at the time of the oath taking ceremony, he is not permitted to click photographs of the ceremony or post it on social media in any form, reported LiveLaw.
The order also states that Rashid will not have access to internet.
Rashid, a two-time MLA from north Kashmir’s Langate constituency who heads Awami Ittehad Party, had approached the Patiala House Court on June 5, seeking interim bail to take oath as a member of parliament following which the court sought the response of the NIA to his application.
In the recently-concluded Lok Sabha elections, Rashid had won by a margin of more than two lakh votes from the Baramulla parliamentary constituency as an independent candidate, defeating former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
