Photojournalist Kamran Yusuf was granted bail on Monday after seven months. He was arrested on September 5, 2017, by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for allegedly encouraging stone-pelting and mobilising support against security personnel in Kashmir.

Without giving further details, the NIA officials confirmed that Yusuf had been granted bail, reported India Today.

The bail comes after Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti had requested Union home minister Rajnath Singh to look into the case.

“Spoke to Home Minister @rajnathsingh ji to look into Kamran Yousuf’s case. I’ve requested him to intervene so that the life of a young budding journalist does not get ruined,” Mehbooba had said on Twitter yesterday.

According to Free Press Kashmir, the detailed order is set to come on Tuesday, following which Yusuf will walk out of jail. “The decision was announced in the court, but the detailed order will follow tomorrow. We will submit the surety after that and Kamran will walk free,” Warisha Farasat, Yusuf’s lawyer, said.

In the order, Special judge Tarun Sahrawat has stated that Yusuf was “entitled to be released on bail”. To get bail, however, Yusuf will have to furnish “two sureties of Rs 50,000 each including one local surety” which would be subject to four conditions. These conditions include “not leaving India without prior permission of the court” and reporting to the “concerned police station or the NIA branch” once every week.

NDTV reported that according to the NIA, Yusuf was picked up due to his involvement in stone-pelting incidents besides organising groups who would throw stones at security personnel involved in counter-insurgency operations. Yusuf, who had often been warned by the local police, was also allegedly clicking pictures of the youth for circulation in local and national newspapers.

On January 19, the NIA filed a chargesheet against Yusuf and nine Kashmiri separatists and businessmen. Against Yusuf, the NIA listed that it was the”moral duty of a journalist” to highlight what it claimed was improper conduct. Not covering “developmental activity of any government department” or “inauguration of a hospital or a school” or “statement of any political party in power” are some of the reasons that the NIA had listed as evidence that Yusuf was not a “real journalist”, reported The Indian Express.