He was admitted to Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) for the final 20 days.
Former Delhi College professor GN Saibaba on Saturday handed away at a state-run hospital in Hyderabad as a consequence of health-related issues, months after he was acquitted by the Bombay Excessive Court docket within the Maoist hyperlinks case.
Saibaba who was 57 breathed his final at round 9 pm, an official mentioned. He died as a consequence of gall bladder an infection and different issues, he mentioned.
He was admitted to Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) for the final 20 days.
The Bombay Excessive Court docket in March this yr acquitted Saibaba in an alleged Maoist hyperlinks case, noting the prosecution didn’t show the case in opposition to him.
The court docket additionally put aside his life sentence. It declared the sanction obtained by the prosecution to cost the accused underneath the stringent Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA) as “null and void.”
Following his acquittal, the wheelchair-bound GN Saibaba walked out of the Nagpur Central Jail after 10 years.
Saibaba had been lodged in Nagpur Central Jail since 2017 following his conviction by a trial court docket in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district. Previous to that, he was imprisoned from 2014 to 2016, after which he was granted bail.
Saibaba had alleged in August this yr that he was not taken to a hospital for 9 months by authorities regardless of the left facet of his physique getting paralysed and was simply given painkillers within the Nagpur Central Jail, the place he was lodged since his arrest within the case in 2014.
The previous English professor had claimed he was “kidnapped” and arrested by the police with the intention to silence his voice.
A local of Andhra Pradesh, Saibaba had mentioned that he was warned by the authorities that if he didn’t cease “speaking” he can be arrested in some false case.
He had alleged that he was “kidnapped” from Delhi and arrested by Maharashtra Police. Senior officers of Maharashtra Police together with an investigating officer had gone to his home and threatened him and his household, he had claimed.
He had alleged that Maharashtra Police dragged him out of his wheelchair in the course of the course of arrest and in consequence, he suffered a critical harm in his hand which additionally impacted his nervous system.
(With inputs from PTI)
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