The Bombay High Court on Thursday granted bail to former Delhi University associate professor Hany Babu , five years after his arrest in the Elgaar Parishad case. With this, 12 of the 16 accused arrested in the case are out of jail.

The accused were initially arrested by the Pune police in 2018 and later by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in 2020.

While Father Stan Swamy passed away in custody in 2021, three remain in custody, including lawyer Surendra Gadling, who was arrested in 2018, and poets-singers Sagar Gorkhe and Ramesh Gaichor, who were arrested in 2020.

Those released

Last month, singer-poet Jyoti Jagtap was released on interim bail by the Supreme Court, pending final hearing of her bail plea on grounds of long incarceration. The court also extended the interim

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