NEW DELHI, June 14 -- A division bench of the Delhi High Court, comprising Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur, dismissed Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah's application for bail in a terror funding case.

The appeal challenged a trial court's July 7, 2023, order that had refused to grant him interim release. "The present appeal is dismissed," the bench pronounced. A detailed order explaining the court's reasoning is yet to be released.

In August 2023, the High Court had issued notices to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), seeking its response to Shah's bail petition. The agency, which originally brought the charges, registered the case in 2017 against Shah and eleven others, alleging they conspired to raise and col...