Professor Saibaba, who is wheelchair-bound, is currently in Nagpur Central Jail.

Mumbai:

Former Delhi University professor GN Saibaba, jailed for alleged Maoist links, has been acquitted by the Bombay High Court.

GN Saibaba, 54, and five others were convicted in 2017 by a sessions court.

The High Court had acquitted Professor Saibaba, who has a disability, on October 14, 2022, but the Supreme Court had set it aside, referring the case back to the High Court for a fresh hearing.

Professor Saibaba, who is wheelchair-bound, is currently in Nagpur Central Jail.

In 2017, a sessions court in Gadchiroli had convicted Saibaba and the others for alleged Maoist links and for indulging in activities amounting to waging war against the country.

The court had held that Saibaba had Naxal literature intended for circulation among underground Maoists at Gadchiroli and others, to incite violence.

Saibaba had challenged the sessions court conviction before the Bombay High Court.