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Srinagar: A Delhi court granted bail to prominent Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez and journalist-researcher Irfan Mehraj in a case investigated by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The fresh bail on Saturday (July 18) marks another major legal relief for the two, who have remained in custody for several years.

The order was passed by additional sessions Judge Pittambur Dutt of the Patiala House Courts in the case registered as RC-37/2020, which the NIA has described as the “NGO terror funding case”.

According to sources familiar with the matter, it remains unclear whether Parvez and Mehraj will be released today (Saturday) or on Monday, as their release is subject to the completion of procedural formalities linked to the court order.

The fresh order comes a little over a month after the Delhi high court granted bail to Parvez in a separate NIA case.

In the present case, in which bail was granted today, the NIA named Parvez as the first accused, Mehraj as the second and Ghulam Hassan Bana, whom the agency describes as absconding in Pakistan, as the third accused.

The agency has alleged that the........

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