NGO terror funding case: Court sends Parvez, Mehraj to 10-day NIA custody

A court here on Wednesday granted the National Investigation Agency (NIA) 10 days' custody of two people accused in a case related to NGO terror funding.

Principal District and Sessions Judge Dharmesh Sharma allowed 10 days of custodial interrogation of human rights activist Khurram Parvez and his "close associate" Irfan Mehraj on two separate applications by the federal agency for 12 days' custody of each of them.

"I have heard the counsel for the accused persons and having regard to the facts disclosed in the two applications and to unearth the incriminating material and other links concerning their unlawful activities besides the aspect of confrontation with digital evidence, the applications are allowed and both the accused persons are remanded to police custody of the NIA for a period of 10 days," the judge said.

He also said that the accused persons should be medically examined on each day of remand and produced before the court on April 1.

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