India, June 12 -- The Delhi high court on Thursday denied bail to Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah, who has been jailed in connection with a terror funding case since 2019. "The present appeal is dismissed," said a bench of justices Navin Chawla and Shailender Kaur, pronouncing the operative part of the order.

Shah moved the court against a Delhi court's July 2023 order denying him bail. In his plea, Shah said the National Investigation Agency (NIA) did not name him in the main and the first supplementary charge sheet. He said he had been incarcerated for over seven years, and there was no likelihood of the trial concluding soon.

Shah pleaded that he has been in different prisons for 35 years, apart from being under house ar...