Arita Sarkar arita. sarkar@ mid- day. com A district court in Bidar, Karnataka, on Friday granted bail to Shaheen School principal Fareeda Begum and Nazmunnisa, whose daughter was part of the anti- CAA play for which the police booked the duo on sedition charge. The judge granted them bail against a bond of R 1 lakh each. The daughter, 11, who stayed with a neighbour and later with a teacher while Nazmunnisa was in judicial custody, can live with her mother again after they are released on Saturday.

Shaheen School CEO Thouseef Madikeri said he was relieved and that the school management will take care of all legal expenses of the two women. u201c We are looking forward to the next hearing. We still canu2019t believe that a satirical play critical of the NRC attracted a charge of sedition and our children were interrogated for five days. We canu2019t entirely blame the complainant for it either since this was a failure of the police department,u201d he said.