New Delhi, March 2 -- A Delhi court has granted bail to nine Indian Youth Congress (IYC) activists who were earlier arrested by Delhi Police in connection with protests at the India AI Impact summit last month.

Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) Ravi of the Patiala House Court ordered the release of Krishna Hari, Narshimha Yadav, Kundan Kumar Yadav, Ajay Kumar Singh, Jitendra Singh Yadav, Raja Gurjar, Ajay Kumar Vimal Bantu, Saurabh Singh and Arbaz Khan, according to a report by legal news website, Bar and Bench.

In the order on Sunday, the judge held that the Youth Congress's protest amounted to "political dissent", not "recidivist violence or organised crime."

"The protest, at highest, constituted symbolic political critique duri...