Kanhaiya Kumar, the president of the students’ union at Jawaharlal Nehru University whose arrest on sedition charges touched off a nationwide political row over free speech, was granted bail for six months on Wednesday.

The Delhi high court approved Kumar’s bail on a personal bond of Rs 10,000 and asked him to cooperate in investigations into allegations that he had delivered a seditious speech to commemorate the hanging of Afzal Guru, a convict in the 2001 attack on Parliament.