Bhubaneswar, Aug 21 - Anti-Posco leader Abhaya Sahu, who was arrested in October last year for his alleged involvement in several crimes, was released from jail Friday, a day after the Orissa High Court granted him bail, police said.

Hundreds of Sahu's supporters garlanded him with flowers and shouted slogans in his praise as he came out of the Chaudwar jail in Cuttack district, some 30 km from here, in the evening, police said.

He was also taken in a procession on a motorcycle to the office of the Communist Party of India (CPI) in Bhubaneswar. Soon after his release, Sahu, who is also a senior CPI leader, told reporters that he would continue his fight against South Korean steel major Posco's proposed steel plant in Jagatsinghpur district.

'We will not give one inch of land to the company,' Sahu told IANS.

Sahu is the president of the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), which has been spearheading a movement against the setting up of the steel plant.

Police had slapped at least 36 criminal cases against him. While he got bail in 35 cases in different courts earlier, the high court at Cuttack granted conditional bail in the last case Thursday, his lawyer Jagannath Patnaik told IANS.