NEW DELHI, May 1 (Xinhua) -- India's highest judiciary Friday extended the parole of Nehru-Gandhi scion Varun Gandhi, accused of making anti-Muslim hate speech during election campaign, for two weeks, a senior Indian government official said.

    "A three-member Supreme Court bench headed by India's Chief Justice K.G. Balachandran, today granted the extension after Gandhi's lawyer moved an application before the court. An earlier parol granted by the apex court ended today," the official said on condition of anonymity.

    Just weeks ago, Gandhi, a grand-son of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and a parliament member candidate of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), approached India's Supreme Court seeking to quash the invocation of the draconian National Security Act against him by the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh's government, for an alleged hate speech during an election campaign in his constituency in Pilbhit.

    The Supreme Court had released him on two-week parole on April 16 subject to the condition that he would give an undertaking to jail superintendent Etah and also to the apex court that he will not deliver any provocative speech.

    The apex court had ordered his release on parole despite stiff opposition by the Uttar Pradesh government to his release, saying that Gandhi was a national threat and his release could lead to serious public order problem.

    The Uttar Pradesh government had invoked National Security Act on March 29 against him, following violence in Pilibhit on March 28 during his surrender before a local court.

    Gandhi had allegedly delivered the hate speech on March 8 during a public meeting.