New Delhi, July 3 -- The Delhi high court on Wednesday granted bail to two accused - Neelam Azad and Mahesh Kumawat - in the 2023 Parliament security breach case, saying their protest was not a terrorist act. A bench of justices Subramonium Prasad and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar granted the reprieve to the two accused on a personal bond of Rs.50,000 each and two sureties, even as it deprecated their choice of place of protest. "The Parliament represents the very basis of our Democracy. It cannot be said that what the accused have done is a legitimate form of protest or demonstration. At the same time, the Appellants have not propagated any movement which can be said to be against the interest of the nation," the bench said in its 32-page order. "The activities of the appellants are of the nature of propagation of ideological messages and in the opinion of this court prima facie do not constitute a terrorist act," it added. The court noted that while Kumawat was not in Delhi at the time of the offence, Azad was not inside the Parliament building. "The protest is more symbolic rather than giving apprehension of substantial threat or having been done with terrorist intent...," the bench said. On December 13, 2023, accused Sagar Sharma and Manoranjan D allegedly jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber, released yellow gas from canisters and sloganeered before they were overpowered by some MPs....