India, Jan. 29 -- New Delhi

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted custody parole to former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor Mohammad Tahir Hussain permitting him to come out of jail to campaign for 12 hours every day beginning Wednesday till February 3 , on the strength of an undertaking that he would bear the expenses associated with such custody, estimated at a little over Rs.2 lakh per day.

The order of the court came on a plea filed by Hussain seeking interim bail till February 4 in one of the cases against him in connection with the 2020 northeast Delhi riots where he is accused of instigating the murder of an Intelligence Bureau (IB) staffer Ankit Sharma. He sought permission to canvas for votes in the Delhi assembly polls to be he...