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more-inA Delhi court on Thursday rejected the Odisha Police’s plea to take blogger and political commentator Abhijit Iyer-Mitra on transit remand and granted him conditional bail. A team reached south-east Delhi’s Hazarat Nizamuddin police station with a warrant against Mr.
Iyer-Mitra, who lives in that area. The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate granted conditional bail to Mr.
Iyer-Mitra till September 28 and directed him to appear at the Konark police station. Mr.
Iyer-Mitra had recently visited Odisha and accompanied former MP Baijayant Panda during his controversial helicopter trip in the State. Mocking StateAfter the video triggered a controversy, other tweets of Mr.
Iyer-Mitra were also dug out..