Maoist-links case: GN Saibaba to remain in jail as SC suspends Bombay HC acquittal order
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Saturday suspended the Bombay High Court order acquitting former Delhi University (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 situations.
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 High Court.
It sought responses from Saibaba and the opposite accused on a plea moved by the Maharashtra authorities in opposition to the excessive courtroom order.
More than eight years after his arrest, the Bombay High Court 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 Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) was “bad in law 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.
Apart from Saibaba, the courtroom acquitted Mahesh Kariman Tirki, Pandu Pora Narote (each farmers), Hem Keshavdatta Mishra (scholar) and Prashant Sanglikar (journalist), who have been sentenced to life imprisonment, and Vijay Tirki (labourer), who was sentenced to 10 years in jail.
Narote died in the course of the pendency of the enchantment.
Saibaba, 52, who’s wheelchair-bound resulting from a bodily incapacity, is at the moment lodged within the Nagpur central jail.
He was arrested in February 2014.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Saturday suspended the Bombay High Court order acquitting former Delhi University (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 situations.
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 High Court.
It sought responses from Saibaba and the opposite accused on a plea moved by the Maharashtra authorities in opposition to the excessive courtroom order.
More than eight years after his arrest, the Bombay High Court 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 Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) was “bad in law 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.
Apart from Saibaba, the courtroom acquitted Mahesh Kariman Tirki, Pandu Pora Narote (each farmers), Hem Keshavdatta Mishra (scholar) and Prashant Sanglikar (journalist), who have been sentenced to life imprisonment, and Vijay Tirki (labourer), who was sentenced to 10 years in jail.
Narote died in the course of the pendency of the enchantment.
Saibaba, 52, who’s wheelchair-bound resulting from a bodily incapacity, is at the moment lodged within the Nagpur central jail.
He was arrested in February 2014.
