By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: The Splendid Courtroom on Saturday suspended the Bombay Top Courtroom order acquitting former Delhi College (DU) professor G N Saibaba and others in a Maoist-links case.
The prime court docket acquitted Saibaba and others within the case on Friday.
An apex court docket bench of justices M R Shah and Bela M Trivedi, which sat on a non-working day to listen to the subject, additionally rejected Saibaba’s request for placing him underneath space arrest in view of his bodily incapacity and well being prerequisites.
It stayed the discharge of all of the accused within the case, together with Saibaba, from prison, as directed by means of the Nagpur bench of the Bombay Top Courtroom.
It sought responses from Saibaba and the opposite accused on a plea moved by means of the Maharashtra govt towards the prime court docket order.
Greater than 8 years after his arrest, the Bombay Top Courtroom acquitted Saibaba on Friday and ordered his free up from prison, noting that the sanction order issued to prosecute the accused within the case underneath the stringent provisions of the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA) was once “dangerous in legislation and invalid”.
The Nagpur bench of the prime court docket allowed Saibaba’s enchantment, difficult a 2017 order of the trial court docket that convicted him within the case and sentenced him to lifestyles imprisonment.
With the exception of Saibaba, the court docket acquitted Mahesh Kariman Tirki, Pandu Pora Narote (each farmers), Hem Keshavdatta Mishra (pupil) and Prashant Sanglikar (journalist), who have been sentenced to lifestyles imprisonment, and Vijay Tirki (labourer), who was once sentenced to ten years in prison.
Narote died all the way through the pendency of the enchantment.
Saibaba, 52, who’s wheelchair-bound because of a bodily incapacity, is recently lodged within the Nagpur central jail.
He was once arrested in February 2014.
NEW DELHI: The Splendid Courtroom on Saturday suspended the Bombay Top Courtroom order acquitting former Delhi College (DU) professor G N Saibaba and others in a Maoist-links case.
The prime court docket acquitted Saibaba and others within the case on Friday.
An apex court docket bench of justices M R Shah and Bela M Trivedi, which sat on a non-working day to listen to the subject, additionally rejected Saibaba’s request for placing him underneath space arrest in view of his bodily incapacity and well being prerequisites.
It stayed the discharge of all of the accused within the case, together with Saibaba, from prison, as directed by means of the Nagpur bench of the Bombay Top Courtroom.
It sought responses from Saibaba and the opposite accused on a plea moved by means of the Maharashtra govt towards the prime court docket order.
Greater than 8 years after his arrest, the Bombay Top Courtroom acquitted Saibaba on Friday and ordered his free up from prison, noting that the sanction order issued to prosecute the accused within the case underneath the stringent provisions of the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA) was once “dangerous in legislation and invalid”.
The Nagpur bench of the prime court docket allowed Saibaba’s enchantment, difficult a 2017 order of the trial court docket that convicted him within the case and sentenced him to lifestyles imprisonment.
With the exception of Saibaba, the court docket acquitted Mahesh Kariman Tirki, Pandu Pora Narote (each farmers), Hem Keshavdatta Mishra (pupil) and Prashant Sanglikar (journalist), who have been sentenced to lifestyles imprisonment, and Vijay Tirki (labourer), who was once sentenced to ten years in prison.
Narote died all the way through the pendency of the enchantment.
Saibaba, 52, who’s wheelchair-bound because of a bodily incapacity, is recently lodged within the Nagpur central jail.
He was once arrested in February 2014.
