Since June 30, Saibaba, who is 90% disabled and wheel-chair bound, teaches English literature at the Ram Lal Anand College in Delhi. He was granted interim bail by the Bombay High Court on health ground; the bail was extended in September.
Delhi University (DU) professor Dr GN Saibaba, who was directed by the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court to surrender in 48 hours in the alleged Maoist link case, has told dna that after consulting his lawyer all legal remedies will be explored.
"When the Supreme Court is on winter vacation, I can't seek relief challenging the high court order. The state government has deliberately chosen this time to put me inside the anda cell of Nagpur Central jail....," he said.
Since June 30, Saibaba, who is 90% disabled and wheel-chair bound, teaches English literature at the Ram Lal Anand College in Delhi. He was granted interim bail by the Bombay High Court on health ground; the bail was extended in September.
The DU teachers' committee, which has been fighting against his arrest, condemned it and appealed to people to fight against the stand taken by the state government. Issuing a statement in the evening, it said the act is state's "fascist tendency and intolerance to silence the voice of dissent".
Expressing shock over the way Saibaba was earlier lodged in the jail, the committee termed it "inhuman".
"...The current interruption in his medical treatment, after pushing him to the verge of death inside prison, only shows the desperation with which the state wants to silence such voices of dissent.
"The highly inhospitable conditions of the notorious anda cell had further deteriorated his multiple health problems. The extreme insensitivity of the prison authorities, clubbed with a vengeful administrative apparatus coordinated from the Centre, had nearly ensured that the medical complications became life-threatening. This is demonstrative of the level of cruelty with which a differently-abled person is treated in the prison," the statement said.
Saibaba has been undergoing treatment in various hospitals in Delhi for problems of the heart, spinal cord, kidneys, gall bladder and the left shoulder (which had became totally dysfunctional in prison owing to muscle death).
"...In this situation, the cancellation of his bail and forcing him back into the same hostile prison is going to seriously affect his health, probably beyond recuperation. The rejection of bail in this situation, therefore, is unacceptable and inhuman," it added.
"It is a part of Indian state's brutal war on the tribal people in Central and Eastern India codenamed Operation Green Hunt. It is aimed at silencing one of the most prominent and effective voices against Green Hunt and the Indian state's anti-people policies introduced under the garb of development...," the teachers said.
Last June, the Mumbai police had arrested him for his alleged links with Maoists, after questioning him more than four times in the last six months.
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