New Delhi: Former Delhi University associate professor Hany Babu, an accused in the high-profile Elgar Parishad case, was granted bail on Thursday by the Bombay High Court on grounds of prolonged incarceration of over five years without trial.

A division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and R R Bhonsale, which completed hearing in the case in the first week of October this year, ordered on Thursday to release Babu and to furnish a personal bond of Rs one lakh with sureties of the same amount.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) urged the High Court to stay the order so that an appeal could be filed in the Supreme Court. Still, it was rejected, citing the length of time Babu had already spent behind bars and also that the trial was “not likely to be completed soon.”

The NIA had arreste

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