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Delhi varsity professor Saibaba granted bail
The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to Delhi University professor G N Saibaba, accused of being associated with a front organisation of a banned Maoist outfit. The Supreme Court bench, headed by Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, granted bail to Saibaba, noting that all the material witnesses in the case had already been examined and there was no basis for keeping him confined.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to Delhi University professor G N Saibaba, accused of being associated with a front organisation of a banned Maoist outfit. The Supreme Court bench, headed by Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, granted bail to Saibaba, noting that all the material witnesses in the case had already been examined and there was no basis for keeping him confined.
- He was arrested in May 2014 for his alleged links with the banned Maoist outfit
- The wheelchair-bound professor is 90% disabled
- The apex court, while granting bail, has dismissed the objection by Maharashtra counsel that the professor may propagate his views if he is set free
The court was not agreeable to the plea of the counsel for Maharashtra government, who expressed apprehension that the professor would propagate his views if he was set free. The court observed that he would be doing so even if he was released later.
Granting bail to Saibaba, the court said his release would be subject to the conditions by the trial court as he would make himself available as and when he was required.Prof Saibaba was arrested in May 2014 for his alleged links with the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) outfit. He had been in jail since a single-judge bench of the Bombay High Court in Nagpur cancelled his bail in December last year. He was initially granted bail in July 2015. The wheelchair-bound professor is more than 90 per cent disabled. He has been paralysed from waist-downwards since contracting polio in childhood.
Saibaba had stated earlier that his muscles had been damaged while he was being taken to Nagpur from Delhi by the Maharashtra police. While in jail, inadequate toilet and sleeping facilities caused damage to his left arm ligaments, nerves and his spinal cord. Since obtaining bail in July, the English professor has been undergoing treatment every week at the Indian Spinal Injuries Centre in New Delhi. He had an angioplasty recently.
