{"id":189007,"date":"2025-11-28T10:10:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T05:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=189007"},"modified":"2025-11-28T10:10:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T05:10:27","slug":"delhi-court-allows-jailed-mp-er-rashid-to-attend-parliaments-winter-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/11\/28\/delhi-court-allows-jailed-mp-er-rashid-to-attend-parliaments-winter-session.html","title":{"rendered":"Delhi court allows jailed MP Er Rashid to attend Parliament\u2019s winter session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-189008\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/2-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/2-13.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/2-13-390x216.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>New Delhi: A Delhi court has allowed jailed Lok Sabha member Engineer Rashid to attend the upcoming winter session of Indian Parliament in custody on all dates.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, Additional Sessions Judge Prashant Sharma was hearing a plea seeking custody parole filed by advocate Vikhyat Oberoi on behalf of Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid.<\/p>\n<p>The judge, however, clarified that the travel cost is subject to the outcome of an appeal already pending in the Delhi High Court.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioner\u2019s lawyer had sought relief on the grounds that Rashid is a parliamentarian and needs to attend the upcoming winter session of the Indian Parliament from December 1 to fulfill his public duty.<\/p>\n<p>Rashid defeated Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls from Baramulla.<\/p>\n<p>Rashid has been lodged in Delhi\u2019s Tihar jail since 2019, after he was arrested by the Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in a 2017 false terror-funding case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: A Delhi court has allowed jailed Lok Sabha member Engineer Rashid to attend the upcoming winter session of Indian Parliament in custody on all dates. According to Kashmir Media Service, Additional Sessions Judge Prashant Sharma was hearing a plea seeking custody parole filed by advocate Vikhyat Oberoi on behalf of Sheikh Abdul Rashid, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":189008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-189007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","tag-top-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/2-13.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189010,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189007\/revisions\/189010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}