<span style="color: #222222;">In Pune, a sessions court today termed Dalit scholar Anand Teltumbde's arrest in the Elgar Parishad case as illegal, and ordered that he should be released immediately. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Teltumbde as arrested at Mumbai airport in early hours today.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Additional Sessions Judge Kishor Vadane noted that the Supreme Court, while rejecting Teltumbde's plea seeking to quash the FIR against him, had given him protection from arrest for four weeks, that is till February 11, so that he could approach the competent authority includes high court as well as the apex court for legal relief.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The court said, therefore, arresting him before the protection period ended was illegal and he should be released immediately. The sessions court had Friday rejected Teltumbde's anticipatory bail application.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile, Assistant Commissioner of Police Shivaji Pawar, who is investigating the case, says, since his pre-arrest bail plea was rejected by the court in Pune yesterday, we decided to arrest him. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Teltumbde's lawyer Rohan Nahar, however, had pointed out that the Supreme Court had given him protection from arrest till February 11.</span>