Jammu and Kashmir MP Engineer Rashid, accused in alleged terror funding case, on Wednesday (August 6, 2025) knowledgeable the Delhi Excessive Court docket that he was unable to characterize his constituency owing to a rider imposed on him to pay each day prices to attend the parliamentary session.

Showing earlier than a bench of Justices Vivek Chaudhary and Anup Jairam Bhambhani, Mr. Rashid sought the modification of an order handed by a coordinate bench.

The order directed him to deposit ₹4 lakh with the jail authorities as journey bills for attending Parliament.

Throughout the listening to, the bench remarked that when custody parole is granted, it’s ordinarily at the price of the individual.

At this, senior advocate N Hariharan, showing for Mr. Rashid stated the situation was unreasonable as a result of “he [Rashid] is an elected consultant of the folks of a parliamentary constituency and unable to characterize them attributable to incapacity to pay the identical”.

Hariharan continued, “If the situation imposed is such that he’s unable to go (to the parliament), we’re interfering with the fundamental components of democracy on this nation.” He claimed when Mr. RRashid took the oath, “the state by no means requested for bills”.

“These are circumstances imposed to by some means see to it that the voice of my constituency just isn’t heard there,” the senior lawyer added.

The counsel identified he was not looking for a assessment of the order however “solely the modification of the circumstances”.

“The order is he be taken into custody, topic to circumstances. I’m saying the situation is misguided amounting to defeating the order itself,” he stated.

The bench posted the matter for August 12.

The Baramulla MP, who defeated Omar Abdullah within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, is dealing with trial in a terror funding case with allegations that he funded separatists and terror teams in Jammu and Kashmir.

He has been lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail since 2019 after the NIA arrested him within the 2017 terror-funding case. He was granted interim bail for one month in September final 12 months to marketing campaign within the Jammu and Kashmir Meeting election.

The NIA’s FIR alleged Mr. RRashid’s identify cropped up throughout the interrogation of businessman and co-accused Zahoor Watali.