New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a notice to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah’s plea challenging the Delhi High Court’s denial of bail in a terror funding case.
A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta declined Shah’s request for interim bail despite senior advocate Colin Gonsalves arguing that the petitioner was “very sick.” The court has listed the matter for hearing after two weeks.
The Delhi High Court, in its June 12 order, had rejected Shah’s bail plea, noting that the possibility of him engaging in similar unlawful activities or influencing witnesses could not be ruled out.
Shah, arrested by the NIA on June 4, 2019, is an accused in a 2017 case where the agency charged 12 people with conspiring to raise funds for stone-pelting, damaging public property, and waging war against the Government of India.
