India, Aug. 15 -- The Bombay High Court on Friday granted interim protection from arrest to a former Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) student accused of raising inflammatory slogans during an unauthorised campus event held last October to mark the death anniversary of the late Delhi University professor and human rights activist GN Saibaba.

A single-judge bench of justice Prafulla Khubalkar granted Kamakhya Prasad Das protection from arrest till August 31, when the matter will be heard next.

According to the prosecution, Das was among the group of students who organised an unauthorised memorial for Saibaba on October 12 last year. During the event, Das and other students allegedly raised slogans seeking the release of jailed act...