Hyderabad, Aug. 10 -- After languishing in jail for months for retweeting a post on PM Narendra Modi, Hyderabad-based freelance journalist Hassan Moiuddin Siddiqui has been granted bail, said reports on Monday, August 10.

Siddiqui was arrested by the Punjab Police this April for allegedly retweeting a video posted by academician Madhu Kishwar. The post allegedly claimed that a man getting a facial massage was Modi. The accompanying post also allegedly claimed that US intelligence agencies had the PM's compromising videos in their possession.

Earlier bail applications rejected

His bail applications were rejected till as recently as the end of July, when a Chandigarh court held that the allegations against Siddiqui were serious and said ...