India court grants bail to Binayak Sen

India's Supreme Court has granted bail to leading public health specialist and human rights activist, Dr Binayak Sen.
In December a court in the central state of Chhattisgarh sentenced him to life in prison for helping Maoist rebels.
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.
The Supreme Court gave no reason for granting bail to Dr Sen and left it to the court in Chattisgarh to set the terms and conditions of the bail.
"We are a democratic country. He may be a sympathiser [of Maoists] but it did not make him guilty of sedition," the court said. "He is a sympathiser... nothing beyond that."