Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy was today granted interim protection till January 30 by the Delhi High Court against his possible arrest for writing an allegedly inflammatory article.

Justice M L Mehta granted interim protection to Swamy on an undertaking by him that he would not write such articles in the future and issued notice to the Delhi Police for its response on Swamy's anticipatory bail plea.

Swamy had moved the high court on Thursday seeking anticipatory bail in the case filed against him in October last year by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police for writing an article in a newspaper in July last year which, it said, tended to spread communal enmity.