DU, JNU teachers demand release of GN Saibaba
25 Nov 2014 4:17 AM IST
The teachers and academicians of Delhi University and JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University) carried out signature campaign for the release of professor GN Saibaba, who was arrested by Maharashtra Police in May this year for alleged Naxal links.
The campaign was organised under the banner ‘Committee for the Defence and Release of GN Saibaba’.
‘We are carrying out a signature campaign which will be submitted to President of India to appeal for the release of GN Saibaba. His stay in the abysmal conditions of Nagpur Central Jail has had a telling effect on his health. Contrary to the claims of the police and the jail authorities, the solitary cell and the premises are unfriendly for a 90 per cent disabled person,’ said a member of the committee.
Months after he was questioned for suspected Maoist links, GN Saibaba was picked up by Maharashtra police in May while he was returning home from work. The raid on Saibaba came after the arrest of JNU student Hemant Mishra who allegedly mentioned his name.
Saibaba is suffering from permanent post-polio paralysis of the legs. He also suffers from acute cervical and lower lumbar spondylitis, multiple cramps in his hands along with hypertension and has a history of cardiac arrest, informed the member of the committee.
The committee has also argued that Saibaba should not have been incarcerated like this. ‘Even if his arrest was necessary for some reason, there was certainly no need to intensify his suffering by putting him in unda cell’, read its pamphlet.
The campaign was organised under the banner ‘Committee for the Defence and Release of GN Saibaba’.
‘We are carrying out a signature campaign which will be submitted to President of India to appeal for the release of GN Saibaba. His stay in the abysmal conditions of Nagpur Central Jail has had a telling effect on his health. Contrary to the claims of the police and the jail authorities, the solitary cell and the premises are unfriendly for a 90 per cent disabled person,’ said a member of the committee.
Months after he was questioned for suspected Maoist links, GN Saibaba was picked up by Maharashtra police in May while he was returning home from work. The raid on Saibaba came after the arrest of JNU student Hemant Mishra who allegedly mentioned his name.
Saibaba is suffering from permanent post-polio paralysis of the legs. He also suffers from acute cervical and lower lumbar spondylitis, multiple cramps in his hands along with hypertension and has a history of cardiac arrest, informed the member of the committee.
The committee has also argued that Saibaba should not have been incarcerated like this. ‘Even if his arrest was necessary for some reason, there was certainly no need to intensify his suffering by putting him in unda cell’, read its pamphlet.
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