Overview
- Shabir Ahmed Shah won bail from a Delhi money-laundering court on Saturday, with a ₹1 lakh bond, two sureties including one in Delhi, a passport surrender, and a bar on travel outside his state or India.
- The court pointed to his Supreme Court bail in the linked terror-funding case on March 12, which the justices granted because the trial was unlikely to finish soon.
- Judge Prashant Sharma noted the Enforcement Directorate did not arrest Shah during its probe and said a defendant who appears on summons in that situation should receive bail.
- Shah, who told the court he is over 70 and has spent more than eight years in custody since his 2019 arrest by the National Investigation Agency, now moves toward release under strict terms.
- The NIA’s claims of separatist activity and funds moved through hawala and cross-Line of Control trade remain before the courts, with prosecutions ongoing in related cases.