India, July 17 -- The Esplanade metropolitan magistrate court has granted bail to Bilal Teli, the 22-year-old arrested last month for staying illegally on the campus of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B). The detailed order is yet to be made available. Teli, who works at a private firm in Surat, had lived on the IIT campus for 19 days between May and June, attending lectures on artificial intelligence and robotics and pretending to be a doctoral student.

Teli was first spotted on the campus of the premier engineering institute on June 4, when Shilpa Kotikal from the institute's Credit Department raised an alarm, saying an unidentified man had entered her office without authorisation. He left the campus on June 7 and headed...