The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notice on the appeals filed by National Investigation Agency (NIA) against bail granted to human rights activist Khurram Parvez and Kashmiri journalist Irfan Mehraj in a 2020 UAPA case.

A division bench comprising Justice Prathiba M Singh and Justice Vikas Mahajan sought response of Mehraj and Khurram, and listed the matter for hearing tomorrow.

No order for staying the grant of bail was passed today. Both Parvez and Mehraj have not yet been released from jail.

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

The NIA bas challenged the trial court order passed by Principal and Sessions Judge Pitamber Dutt of Patiala House Courts on July 18.

With the impugned bail order, the Trial Court paved had way for release of Khurram Parvez. He was granted bail recently in another UAPA case by the 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.

Title: NIA v. Khurram Parvez and other connected matter