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Former Delhi University Professor G N Saibaba Passes Away In Hyderabad, 7 Months After Acquittal In UAPA Case

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OB Bureau

Hyderabad: Former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba died at a government hospital in Hyderabad due to complications following a gallbladder operation.

The 54-year-old academic was acquitted in an alleged Maoist links case about seven months ago after spending nearly 10 years in jail.

An operation for gallbladder infection was conducted on him at the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) two weeks ago. He breathed his last at around 9 pm on Saturday. 

Saibaba and five others were acquitted by the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court in an alleged Maoists links case in March 2024, facilitating the wheelchair-bound former English professor to walk out of the Nagpur Central jail after a decade of incarceration as an undertrial. The HC set aside his life sentence and noted that the prosecution failed to prove the case against him. 

In August, Saibaba alleged that jail authorities did not take him to hospital for nine months when  he complained that the left side of his body was getting paralysed. He was given only painkillers. 

Saibaba had claimed that he was “kidnapped” by the Maharashtra Police from Delhi after being threatened by authorities that if he did not stop “talking” he would be implicated in a false  case. He also claimed that while arresting him, he was pulled out of his wheel-chai making him to fall and sustain injury which eventually impaired his nervous system. CPI MLA K Sambasiva Rao condoled Saibaba’s death, saying it was a loss to society. 

 

OB Bureau

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