Delhi HC dismisses Er Rashid’s plea challenging framing of charges in terror funding case

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NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday rejected a plea by jailed Lok Sabha MP from Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla, Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer Rashid, challenging the framing of charges against him in a terror funding case.
A bench of Justices Prathiba M Singh and Madhu Jain said the appeal by Rashid against the trial court order was not maintainable.
It noted that a coordinate bench of the high court has already, in another case, held that an appeal was not maintainable against an order of framing charges as the same was not a final order.
“The present appeal would also not be maintainable and is dismissed as being not maintainable,” said the bench. The senior counsel appearing for the National Investigation Agency (NIA said that Rashid’s appeal was filed after a delay of 1100 days, which should not be condoned.