New Delhi, May 13 -- : The Delhi High court on Thursday granted anticipatory bail to Mumbai-based journalist Varun Hiremath who is accused of raping a Pune-based model.

A bench of Justice Mukta Gupta while passing the order said, the order copy in this matter will not be uploaded as it contains portions of 164 Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) statement and will be given dasti (handover) to concerned parties only.

Earlier the court had granted interim protection from arrest to Hiremath along with a direction to join the investigation to put his version forward and to verify the true facts of the case.

Varun Hiremath was represented by senior advocate Kapil Sibal, advocate Vijay Aggarwal, advocate Sandeep Kapur and briefed by team of Kara...