However, SC grants permission for Maharashtra govt to appeal against acquittal because of its own earlier judgment that reversed the first Bombay HC order setting Saibaba free.
Court also set aside life sentence imposed on 54-year-old Saibaba, who is wheelchair-bound. He has been detained in Nagpur Central Jail since his arrest in the case in 2014.
The bench of top court Justices M R Shah and CT Ravikumar said that question of law, including sanction under UAPA, is to remain open for adjudication by HC.
On 24 August 1949, Jaipal Singh Munda, the driving force behind the Jharkhand movement, argued for political representation and self-governance for the tribal community in the Constituent Assembly.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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