The Bombay High Court on Thursday granted bail to former Delhi University associate professor Hany Babu, who spent over five years in custody in the Elgar Parishad–Maoist links case.

A division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and Ranjitsinha Bhosale allowed Babu’s plea seeking release, though the detailed judgment had not been made public at the time of reporting. The court also declined a request from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to stay the bail order so it could move the Supreme Court.

Babu had approached the court arguing prolonged incarceration without trial. His counsel, advocate Yug Mohit Chaudhary, pointed out that charges had still not been framed and a discharge petition remained pending before the trial court despite the passage of several years.

The NIA opposed the

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