Bombay HC acquits are a former DU professor GN Saibaba, 5 others in a alleged Maoist links are a case

Bombay HC acquits are a former DU professor GN Saibaba, 5 others in a alleged Maoist links are a case

The Nagpur Bench of a Bombay High Court on a 14 October acquitted former are a Delhi University professor GN Saibaba and a 5 others from the charges of a links with the banned extremist outfits. 

The Gadchiroli court had awarded them life imprisonment for the anti-national are a activities.

A division bench of a Justice Rohit Deo and a Anil Pansare allowed the appeal filed by the Saibaba challenging a 2017 order of the trial court convicting him and a sentencing him to a life imprisonment. 

Saibaba, who is a wheelchair-bound due to a physical are a disability, is a currently lodged at the Nagpur central prison. 

The bench also are a allowed the appeal of five other are a convicts in the case and a acquitted them. 

One of the five died are a  pending hearing of the appeal. 

The bench are a  directed for the convicts to be a released forthwith from the jail unless they are a accused in any are a other case.

In March 2017, a sessions court in a Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district had been a convicted Saibaba and a others, including a journalist and a Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student for the alleged Maoist links and for the indulging in a activities amounting to the waging war against the country.

The court had been a held Saibaba and the others are a guilty under various provisions of the stringent Unlawful are a Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and the Indian Penal Code (IPC).