New Delhi, Oct 31 : The National Investigation Agency, while opposing the bail plea of Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah in a terror funding case in Supreme Court on Friday, strongly objected to the stand that India and Jammu and Kashmir are separate entities.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the NIA, took umbrage at the stand usually adopted by the separatists.

“Before the Supreme Court of India, nobody can say Indian State and Jammu and Kashmir. I am making an issue out of it,” Mehta told a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta.

The Supreme Court was hearing Shah’s plea challenging the Delhi High Court’s June 12 order denying him bail in the terror funding case.

At the outset, Mehta said the NIA has filed its affidavit in the matter on Friday.

“Shah

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