Patel Quota agitation leader Hardik Patel was released from Surat's Lajpore Central Jail on Friday morning almost 9 months after he was arrested on charges of sedition.
His supporters who were accompanied by 11 young girls welcomed him outside the jail as part of a traditional ceremony they had planned for their leader.
However, the Patel quota agitation spearhead will have to stay outside Gujarat for the next six months, as directed by the high court on Friday when it granted him bail in two sedition cases.
Gujarat High Court had on July 12 removed the last hurdle by granting him bail in a case related to violence at Visnagar MLA's office.
Hardik was accused of inciting violence to put pressure on the government to accept the demand of OBC reservation for Patels.
His mega rally on reservation held in Ahmedabad on August 25 last year had sparked violence, in which, 10 people, including one policeman, were killed and public properties and vehicles damaged across Gujarat.
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