Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted bail to Safoora Zargar, the pregnant Jamia Millia Islamia student facing terrorism charges in connection with the protests against the citizenship regime that police say sparked the Delhi riots, after she spent 74 days in jail.

Zargar, the media coordinator of the Jamia Coordination Committee who is 23 weeks (five months) pregnant, was granted bail after solicitor-general Tushar Mehta, representing the Delhi government, said the state would not oppose such a relief on “humanitarian grounds”.

Zargar, an MPhil student of sociology, had been taken into custody on April 10 after being booked under the anti-terror Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and kept at Tihar jail in Delhi. According to the police, the anti-CAA protests had triggered the Delhi riots in which 53 people were killed in February.

While telling the high court that the state would not oppose Zargar’s bail, Mehta had made it clear that the prosecution had done so without considering the merits of the case, and that this should not be made a precedent.

The prosecution had submitted that 39 deliveries had taken place in Delhi’s prison facilities in the last decade, and Zargar was being taken care of well and had been kept alone in a cell to protect her from Covid-19.

The court has ordered Zargar not to “indulge in any activity for which she is being investigated and not… interfere with the investigation or influence the witnesses”.

Zargar has to seek permission from the trial court to travel, and will remain in touch with the investigating officer of the case over mobile phone once every 15 days.

The government had on several occasions opposed Zagar’s bail pleas. It had suggested that she stay out of Delhi, but her lawyer had pointed out that Zargar’s husband lived in Delhi and her doctor was in neighbouring Faridabad, in Haryana.

Zargar is among several students arrested during the pandemic-triggered lockdown for the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act. Opposition parties, film personalities, member of the European Parliament Maria Arena, the American Bar Association and several human rights groups across the world have called for the release of political prisoners, especially Zargar.

Besides the case under the UAPA, Zargar is named in three other FIRs. Two FIRs for rioting near her university are under investigation, and she had got bail in the third FIR for rioting in Jaffrabad in February.