India, Aug. 8 -- Nearly ten months after nine students of Mumbai's Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) sought anticipatory bail in a case registered over a memorial for former Delhi University professor GN Saibaba, a Sessions Court has granted relief to seven students, while refusing relief to two others. The court held the students' "act of paying homage" to Saibaba, who was acquitted before his death, "cannot be termed as illegal".

The court on Friday granted anticipatory bail to Nikita Monica D'Souza, Uttkarsh Khuntia, Yash Kaundilya, Avantika, Ishpreet Kaur, Hardika Bhagat and Satyam Yadav, observing that no serious incriminating material had surfaced against them beyond their alleged participation in the programme and that thei...