Delhi Court Grants Bail To Human Rights Activist Khurram Parvez, Journalist Irfan Mehraj In UAPA Terror Funding Case

A Delhi Court today granted bail to human rights activist Khurram Parvez and Kashmiri journalist Irfan Mehraj in a 2020 UAPA case.

Mehraj and Parvez were accused in the alleged NGO Terror funding case registered by NIA in October 2020.

Principal and Sessions Judge Pitamber Dutt of Patiala House Court passed the order.

A detailed order is awaited.

With this bail order, the Court has paved way for release of Khurram Parvez. He was granted bail recently in another UAPA case by the Delhi High Court.

Mehraj was a researcher with the JKCCS till March 2022. Parvez was the coordinator of the rights group and has been accused by the NIA of providing "material support" to protestors in Kashmir during the 2016 agitation.

NIA has said that involvement of some valley-based NGOs, Trusts and Societies "in funding of terror related activities is being probed" in the 2020 case.

“Some NGOs, both registered as well as un-registered, have come to notice collecting funds domestically and abroad under the cover of doing charity and various welfare activities, including Public Health, Education etc. But some of these organisations have developed links with proscribed terrorist organizations, such as Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) etc," the NIA has claimed. 

Advocate Swati Khanna appeared for Parvez.