MUMBAI, 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 at TISS on October 12 last year. During the event, Das and other students allegedly raised slogans seeking the release of jailed activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, who are accused in the 2020 Delhi riots case. On August 7, a sessions court granted anticipatory bail to seven of the nine accused students but denied it to Das and another student, Abhirup Paul. The judge stated that shouting slogans in support of individuals whose bail was rejected by the Supreme Court failed to show respect for the "law of the land". The case stems from an FIR registered at the Trombay police station, based on a complaint filed by the TISS administration. The students had allegedly organised the event without permission from the TISS administration. The event was held to pay homage to an "alleged supporter of the Naxalite and Maoist organisation," the prosecution said. After the sessions court denied him relief, Das moved the high court on August 10, stating that the case against him was completely false. His plea said the students had read two poems authored by Saibaba in the spirit of acknowledging his "struggles as a disabled person, who underwent long incarceration, and was eventually acquitted". Das also disputed the allegation that students raised slogans seeking the release of Khalid and Imam. "Even if the students had raised such slogans, the same is not a criminal offence under any provision of the Indian law," the plea said. On the allegation that he possessed banned Maoist literature, Das argued that downloading books did not make him their author or establish his affiliation with a banned organisation. The plea described the FIR as an attempt "to muzzle the students from raising any voices for any social cause"....