Legally Speaking | Twists and turns of GN Saibaba’s legal battle
Hindustan TimesGN Saibaba, a professor of English Literature at Delhi University was arrested on May 9, 2014, by the Maharashtra police on charges of having Maoist links. It was like Sita’s agni pariksha.” For Saibaba’s legal team, the academic’s decade-long incarceration posed several unforeseen challenges, like advocate Surendra Gadling’s arrest in 2018 and the health troubles that Saibaba faced during the Covid-19 pandemic in prison. With his arrest, the lead counsel of Saibaba’s defence team was gone, which resulted in the formation of a quick legal team comprising Nihalsing B Rathod, Pradip Mandhyan, Barun Kumar, Harshal Lingayat and Akash Sorte to argue the appeal. Twists and turns in the legal case Initially, the team planned on securing bail for Saibaba on medical grounds, but the HC rejected their plea in 2019 and found the state-provided medical facilities sufficient. Accordingly, on October 13, 2022, the Bombay HC ruled the trial court’s verdict against Saibaba to be null and void and ordered his release.
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