Maharashtra seeks stay on Professor Saibaba's acquittal in Maoist links case
India TodayAfter the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court acquitted Delhi professor GN Saibaba and others in a case related to links to Maoists, the Maharashtra government on Tuesday moved an application seeking that the judgment be stayed. On Tuesday evening, the bench of Justices Vinay Joshi and Valmiki SA Menezes was reconstituted for the application moved by the state, where Maharashtra Advocate General Birendra Saraf submitted that he was only seeking a stay on the effect and operation of the judgement delivered earlier in the day. Advocates Trideep Pais appearing for Professor Saibaba and Nihalsing Rathod appearing for other accused opposed the state's application, stating that the court order concluded with a positive finding and that the top court should decide further. Rathod stressed that when the state has already moved the Supreme Court, it cannot approach the High Court again for a stay of its own judgment when it has already been signed.