The Delhi High Court on Friday delivered a split verdict on a plea by jailed Jammu and Kashmir MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh against costs to be paid for attending Parliament while being in custody, with one of the judges saying he does not have any entitlement and the other holding him liable to pay only reasonable costs towards transportation and not charges for police officers accompanying him.

While Justice Vivek Chaudhary, the senior judge on the Bench, rejected Rashid’s plea seeking modification of an order asking him to deposit approximately Rs 4 lakh with jail authorities to attend Parliament in custody, Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani allowed it.

The two judges said they could not concur with each other and passed two separate judgments. The Division Bench referred the matter to the Chie

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