Engineer Rashid, who defeated J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in the Baramulla seat by over 2 lakh votes in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, has been lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail since 2019. (File photo) The Delhi High Court Tuesday ordered for the conditional release of Baramulla independent MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh alias Engineer Rashid for a week to see his ailing father. Senior advocate N Hariharan, representing Rashid, who was seeking interim bail , told a bench of Justices Prathiba SIngh and Madhu Jain that Rashid’s father, aged about 85 years, “seems to be on his last legs”. The National Investigation Agency (NIA), represented by senior advocate Siddharth Luthra, opposed the grant of interim bail. Luthra said one of the protected witnesses in the case turned hostile, and against the NIA, during the trial after supporting the prosecution earlier and accusing Rashid of influencing witnesses. The agency, however, did not oppose an arrangement similar to a custody parole.…