Following his acquittal in Maoists links case, the ex-DU prof recounts his time behind bars, speaking about his deteriorating health and 'immoral ways' in which prosecution came after him.
Acquitting the 6 in Maoist links case, HC wondered how charges were framed against DU prof Saibaba in absence of valid sanction. Police also failed to explain delay in his arrest, HC said.
Govt’s delay in clearing names for judgeship is resulting in suitable candidates saying no to elevation, he says. Adds that bringing law on judicial appointments is govt prerogative.
GN Saibaba and five others were convicted under UAPA in 2017. The Bombay HC has said the earlier conviction is 'null and void', and has ordered their release.
The Bombay HC's Nagpur bench allowed the appeal challenging a 2017 order convicting & sentencing him to life imprisonment. Wheelchair-bound Saibaba is lodged at Nagpur central prison.
A senior official of the jail, however, said that although they have accepted all the necessary things that Saibaba requires, they cannot allow everything inside.
Last week, prison authorities rejected Saibaba's application seeking parole for attending the last rites of his 74-year-old mother, who died in Hyderabad.
Wife of Saibaba, a former DU professor serving a life sentence for ‘Naxal links’, has alleged ill-treatment in Nagpur jail. Authorities deny allegation.
The issue of inequality has assumed the blazing limelight at a time when inequality in India is said to be higher than it was in the British Raj. It's a ripe situation for half-truths and incendiary statements.
Speaking at launch of economist Surjit Bhalla’s book, S Jaishankar also highlights Gen Z’s engagement with ‘reel culture’, which has 'promoted awareness, created interest in many subjects'.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
Misplaced sympathy, that is what this article is. This man in a wheel chair instantly evokes sympathy because of his disability even eliciting comments like “yeh kisika kya kar sakta hai”. But one question that begs an answer is Why should any government keep behind bars an invalid for ten years, unless it had clinching evidence that this urban Naxal was an antinational, who wanted to wreck the existing system of governance and cause chaos and disorder in the country, which is the doctrine of all Naxalites?. Any way, only time will tell if his release was for the good of the society or otherwise.
Misplaced sympathy, that is what this article is. This man in a wheel chair instantly evokes sympathy because of his disability even eliciting comments like “yeh kisika kya kar sakta hai”. But one question that begs an answer is Why should any government keep behind bars an invalid for ten years, unless it had clinching evidence that this urban Naxal was an antinational, who wanted to wreck the existing system of governance and cause chaos and disorder in the country, which is the doctrine of all Naxalites?. Any way, only time will tell if his release was for the good of the society or otherwise.