India, Feb. 26 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for relying on alleged inflammatory speeches from the 1990s while opposing the bail plea of Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah in a terror funding case.

A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta was hearing arguments on Shah's bail plea when senior advocate Siddharth Luthra, appearing for the NIA, referred to transcripts of certain videos as part of the evidence against him. The bench asked about the dates of the speeches cited by the agency.

Luthra informed the court that some of the videos dated back to the 1990s. The bench observed that these speeches were not recent and questioned the agency's reliance on material th...