NEW DELHI: Former Delhi University professor GN Sai Baba passed away in NIMS hospital due to ill health on Saturday.
He was previously accused by Maharashtra police of having links with the banned CPI Maoist but he was later acquitted by Bombay high court.
An English professor at DU, Saibaba was suspended from the college in 2014 after his arrest by Maharashtra police on suspicion of having links to Maoist groups.Following his arrest, Saibaba was incarcerated in Nagpur Central Jail.
In March 2017, a Maharashtra sessions court found Saibaba and five others—Mahesh Tirki, Pandu Narote, Hem Mishra, Prashant Rahi, and Vijay Tirki—guilty of alleged Maoist affiliations and involvement in activities considered to be waging war against the nation. Earlier this year, he was released following his acquittal by Bombay high court.