India, Dec. 4 -- The Bombay high court on Thursday granted bail to former Delhi University professor Hany Babu, arrested in connection with the 2018 Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon violence case after five years of incarceration.

While the investing agency requested the court to grant a stay on the order to approach the Supreme Court, the division bench of justices AS Gadkari and Ranjitsinha R Bhonsale refused the request, noting that Babu has been in custody for over five years.

Babu, 58, an associate professor of language and linguistics at DU was arrested on July 28, 2020, and has since been lodged in Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai. NIA accused Babu of being a co-conspirator in the Elgar Parishad case, where inflammatory speeches were alle...