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Bombay High Court acquits ex-DU professor, 5 others in Maoist links case
Professor GN Saibaba
In a significant development, the Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) on Friday acquitted former Delhi University professor GN Saibaba and five others in an alleged Maoist links and conspiracy case.
Nagpur: In a significant development, the Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) on Friday acquitted former Delhi University professor GN Saibaba and five others in an alleged Maoist links and conspiracy case.
In their verdict, a division bench of Justices Rohit Deo and Anil Pansare acquitted Mahesh K Tirki, Hem Keshawdatt Mishra, Prashant Rahi, Vijay Nan Tirki and Pandur Pora Narote who died in August this year. Earlier, the court had allowed their appeals against conviction and life sentences awarded under the UAPA provisions. Saibaba, who suffers from a polio-related paralysis and is bound to a wheelchair, had previously filed a plea seeking suspension of his sentence on medical grounds, saying he is also suffering from multiple ailments, but it was rejected.
Currently in Nagpur Central Jail, Saibaba is likely to be freed soon unless required in any other case. All the accused, arrested in 2014, were tried under various sections of IPC and UAPA and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Gadchiroli Sessions Court in March 2017, for links with the banned Maoist groups, charges of waging war against the nation, conspiracy, among others.
