Kashmir placard: Ardra Narayanan gets bail after a month

BENGALURU: Freelance graphic designer Ardra Narayanan who was arrested last month for holding a 'Kashmir Liberation' placard was on Monday granted bail by a sessions court in Bengaluru.
The 55th Additional City Civil and Sessions judge K Narayana Prasad allowed the bail petition filed by the 24-year-old , a resident of Malleswaram, paving the way for her release after a little over a month in judicial custody.
Ardra was arrested for holding the placard during a protest organised by some Kannada and Hindu groups at Town Hall against Amulya Leona Noronha’s controversial pro-Pakistan slogans during a anti-Citizenship (Amendment Act) rally attended by AIMIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi at Freedom Park.
Police had registered a suo motu case against Ardra under sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language etc) and 153B (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration) of IPC.