Srinagar: 18 July: Delhi Court on Saturday granted bail to Kashmir’s leading Human Rights activist Khurram Parvez and journalist Irfan Mehraj in a 2020 UAPA case, according to lawyer Swati Khanna.
The duo was accused in the alleged “NGO Terror funding case” registered by NIA in October 2020.
According to Live Law, Principal and Sessions Judge Pitamber Dutt of Patiala House Court passed the order.
The Court order has paved the way for release of Parvez, as he was granted bail in another UAPA case by the Delhi High Court last month.
Mehraj has worked as a researcher with the JKCCS till March 2022.
Parvez acted as the coordinator of the prominent rights group and has been accused by the NIA of providing “material support” to protestors in Kashmir during the 2016 agitation.
Advocate Swati Khanna appeared for Parvez.
