Delhi court extends MP Engineer Rashid's interim bail until October 12
New Delhi (PTI): A court here on Tuesday extended the interim bail granted to Baramulla MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, in a terror funding case until October 12.
Rashid's lawyer Vikhyat Oberoi said he will now have to surrender on October 13 instead of October 2.
The Lok member's legal team had filed a request for the extension of his interim bail granted on September 10. He was released from Tihar Jail the following day and was supposed to surrender on October 2.
Rashid had moved the court seeking interim bail to campaign during the assembly elections in J-K which voted in the last phase on Tuesday.
Additional Sessions Judge Chander Jit Singh had provided the temporary relief to allow Rashid to participate in the assembly elections.
Rashid has defeated former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections as an independent candidate.
His party, the Awami Ittehad Party (AIP), is actively contesting the ongoing assembly elections, which have taken place in three phases from September 18 to October 1. The results are set to be announced on October 8.
The court initially granted Rashid interim bail on a personal bond of Rs 2 lakh, requiring one surety of the same amount.
The judge imposed several conditions, including a prohibition on speaking to the media about his case and refraining from influencing witnesses or the ongoing investigation.
Rashid has been in custody since 2019 after being arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act due to his alleged involvement in a 2017 terror funding case.
His name surfaced during the investigation of Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Watali, who was accused of financing terrorist groups and separatist movements in the region.
The NIA has filed charges against several individuals in connection with this case, including Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik, Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed, and Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin.
Malik was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2022 after pleading guilty to the the charges against him.
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Jharkhand horror: Man kills live-in partner, chops body into 40 pieces
Ranchi (PTI): A 25-year-old man, who works as a butcher, allegedly strangled to death his live-in partner and chopped her body into 40 to 50 pieces in a forested area in Jharkhand’s Khunti district, police said on Wednesday.
The accused, identified as Naresh Bhengra, was arrested.
The matter came to light after around a fortnight after the killing when a stray dog was found with human body parts near Jordag village in Jariagarh police station on November 24.
Bhengra was in a live-in relationship with the deceased, a 24-year-old woman also from Khunti district, in Tamil Nadu for the past couple of years. Sometime back, he returned to Jharkhand, got married to another woman without telling his partner anything and went back to the southern state without his wife to join her.
"The brutal incident occurred on November 8 when they reached Khunti as the accused who had married another woman did not wish to take her home. Instead, he took her to a forest near his house at Jordag village in Jariagarh police station and chopped the body into pieces. The man has been arrested," Khunti Superintendent of Police Aman Kumar told PTI.
Inspector Ashok Singh who investigated the case said the man worked in a butcher shop in Tamil Nadu and was expert in slicing chicken.
“He admitted chopping the body parts of the woman into 40 to 50 pieces before leaving those in the forest for wild animals to feast on. The police recovered several parts on November 24 after a dog in the area was seen with a hand," Singh told PTI.
Singh said that the woman, who was unaware of his marriage, pressured him to return to Khunti. After reaching Ranchi, they boarded a train on November 24 and headed to the man's village.
"Under a plan, the man took her to Khunti in an autorickshaw near his home and asked her to wait. He returned with sharp weapons and strangulated her with her dupatta after raping her. He then cut the body into 40 to 50 pieces and left for his home to live with his wife," Singh said.
The woman, however, had informed her mother that she had boarded a train and would be living with her partner, the police officer said.
Following the recovery of body parts, a bag was also found in the forest with the murdered woman's belongings including her Aadhaar card. The mother of the woman was called at the spot and she identified her daughter's belongings.
"The mother suspected the man behind the crime who after being nabbed by the police admitted to chopping the woman into pieces," the official added.
The incident has sent shockwaves among people in the region, with the Shraddha Walker murder case of 2022 still fresh in their memory.
Walker was killed by her live-in partner who chopped her body into pieces before dumping them in the jungle in South Delhi’s Mehrauli.
