New Delhi: The Supreme Court docket on Saturday suspended the Bombay Excessive Court docket order acquitting former Delhi College (DU) professor G N Saibaba and others in a Maoist-links case.
The excessive courtroom acquitted Saibaba and others within the case on Friday.
An apex courtroom bench of justices M R Shah and Bela M Trivedi, which sat on a non-working day to listen to the matter, additionally rejected Saibaba’s request for placing him beneath home arrest in view of his bodily incapacity and well being circumstances.
It stayed the discharge of all of the accused within the case, together with Saibaba, from jail, as directed by the Nagpur bench of the Bombay Excessive Court docket.
It sought responses from Saibaba and the opposite accused on a plea moved by the Maharashtra authorities in opposition to the excessive courtroom order.
Greater than eight years after his arrest, the Bombay Excessive Court docket acquitted Saibaba on Friday and ordered his launch from jail, noting that the sanction order issued to prosecute the accused within the case beneath the stringent provisions of the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA) was “unhealthy in regulation and invalid”.
The Nagpur bench of the excessive courtroom allowed Saibaba’s enchantment, difficult a 2017 order of the trial courtroom that convicted him within the case and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
Aside from Saibaba, the courtroom acquitted Mahesh Kariman Tirki, Pandu Pora Narote (each farmers), Hem Keshavdatta Mishra (pupil) and Prashant Sanglikar (journalist), who had been sentenced to life imprisonment, and Vijay Tirki (labourer), who was sentenced to 10 years in jail. Narote died throughout the pendency of the enchantment.
Saibaba, 52, who’s wheelchair-bound on account of a bodily incapacity, is at present lodged within the Nagpur central jail. He was arrested in February 2014.
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