NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would hear on January 13 the bail plea of Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah in a terror funding case.

The plea came up for hearing before a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta while senior advocate Colin Gonsalves appeared for Shah in the matter.

As Gonsalves started his submissions, senior advocate Sidharth Luthra, representing the National Investigation Agency (NIA), said he had some difficulty due to personal exigency.