India's Supreme Court has granted bail to leading public health specialist and human rights activist, Dr Binayak Sen.
He was sentenced to life in prison in December for helping Maoist rebels by a court in the central state of Chhattisgarh.
The lower court had found him guilty of carrying messages and setting up bank accounts for the rebels who are active in large parts of India.
Rights groups in India and abroad had called on the government to free him.
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