Hours after the Pune Police arrested Anand Teltumbde, Dalit scholar and brother of wanted Maoist Milind Teltumbde, in the Elgaar Parishad case, a local court on Saturday ordered his release, citing violation of a Supreme Court order.

Anand, 68, who is a management professor in Goa, had been detained at the Mumbai airport in the early hours of Saturday after he arrived from Kochi, and was brought to Pune. The arrest came after the Supreme Court granted him interim relief till February 11.