NEW DELHI, March 28: Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and Congress leader Digvijay Singh, who alongwith five others were sentenced to one year's jail by the Indore district court in the Ujjain assault case on Saturday, has been granted bail.

“This is a 10-year-old case in which my name was not even in the FIR, but was added later under political pressure. I will appeal in the High Court,” Singh said. The case related to a clash with protesting workers of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) in 2011.

The court later granted bail to all the convicts on a surety of Rs 25,000 each.

The six who have been sentenced included, apart from Singh, former Ujjain MP Premchand Guddu, Anant Narayan, Jaisingh Darbar, Aslam Lala and Dilip Chaudhary. Mahesh Parmar (Congress MLA from Tarana), Mukesh Bhati and Hemant Chauhan were acquitted for lack of evidence.

BJYM activists showed black flags to Singh on July 17, 2011, when his convoy was passing through Jiwajiganj area of Ujjain, which led to a clash.