India, July 8 -- The Bombay high court on Tuesday directed the trial court to decide Shamil Nachan's application for temporary bail to enable him to attend his father's last rites on July 17. Shamil's father, Saquib Nachan, an alleged Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) operative arrested in December 2023, died on June 28 in judicial custody after allegedly suffering a brain haemorrhage.

Shamil Nachan was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in August 2023 over his alleged connections with the ISIS module in Maharashtra and his involvement in several terrorist activities, including fabrication of improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

On Tuesday, Nachan's counsel Tahera Qureshi informed the high court that a similar appl...