"Well-Reasoned": Top Court Declines Stay Ex-Professor Saibaba's Release
NDTV
Last week, Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court found no evidence to link the professor, or the others, to any terrorist act, and also cast doubts over "seizures" the state police claimed to have made.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the acquittal last week of former Delhi University professor GN Saibaba, who was serving a life sentence, and five others - who were accused of Maoist links and charged under the stringent anti-terror law UAPA.
The court, in response to a petition by the Maharashtra government, said the judgement of the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court was "very well-reasoned" and pointed all six had been acquitted by two different benches; in 2022 the High Court acquitted them on grounds that valid sanction had not been obtained to prosecute Prof Saibaba under UAPA.
And last week the Nagpur bench found no evidence to link the professor, or the others, to any terrorist act, and also cast doubts over "seizures" the state police claimed to have made.
