New Delhi, April 18 -- Baramulla MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh alias Rashid Engineer has moved court seeking interim bail to meet his ailing father. He is seeking one month's interim bail to meet his father, who is seriously ill and hospitalised.

Rashid Engineer is in judicial custody in Tihar Jail in connection with a terror funding case lodged by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Prashant Sharma got the status verified and heard the submissions of counsel for Rashid Engineer and NIA. The hearing was conducted in a closed courtroom.

Advocate Vikhyat Oberoi alongwith Nishita Gupta, appeared for Rashid Engineer. It was argued that his father is seriously ill and hospitalised. He is praying for a one-month...