Mumbai Live Updates: Delhi University professor GN Saibaba addresses the media following a raid at his residence in January 2014. (File/Express Photo By Amit Mehra)Mumbai News Today Live, Shiv Sena News: Bombay High Court on Friday acquitted former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba in alleged Maoist links case and allowed his appeal against conviction and life sentence. The court also ordered his immediate release from jail. A division bench of Justices Rohit Deo and Anil Pansare allowed the appeal filed by Saibaba challenging a 2017 order of the trial court convicting him and sentencing him to life imprisonment.
Saibaba, who is wheelchair-bound due to a physical disability, is currently lodged at the Nagpur central prison. The bench also allowed the appeal of five other convicts in the case and acquitted them. One of the five died pending hearing of the appeal. The bench directed for the convicts to be released forthwith from jail unless they are accused in any other case.
Speaking to Indian Express, Saibaba’s wife Vasanta Kumari said, “He is an intellectual and a teacher. He was framed in the case and because of spending Seven years in jail, his health has deteriorated and his limbs are not working properly. At present, my brother-in-law is in Nagpur to complete the formalities.”
Rutuja Latke resigned on October 3, however, her resignation is yet to be accepted by the civic administration. (Express Photo)
GN Saibaba was a Delhi University teacher of English until the college he worked at, Ram Lal Anand College, terminated his services last year.
He had joined the college in 2003 and was an Assistant Professor in the English department. He had been suspended in 2014, after he was arrested by the Maharashtra police for suspected Maoist links.
Ever since his suspension in 2014, his family received only half the salary for his position. Finally on March 31, 2021,the principal of the college signed a memorandum terminating his services “with immediate effect”. (Read more)
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has accepted the resignation of Rutuja Latke, the candidate of Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction for the upcoming bypoll to the Andheri East Assembly constituency, an official said. Acting on the Bombay High Court's order, the civic body accepted the resignation and issued a letter of its acceptance to Latke, who was working as executive assistant (clerk) in BMC, around 10 am on Friday, officials said.
"The BMC had accepted Latke's resignation on Thursday itself, immediately after the high court's direction, but she collected the acceptance letter this morning," an official said. (PTI)
After the Bombay High Court on Friday acquitted former DU professor GN Saibaba, his wife Vasanta Kumari said, "He is an intellectual and a teacher. He was framed in the case. Because of spending Seven years in jail, his health has deteriorated and his limbs are not working properly. At present, my brother-in-law is in Nagpur to complete the formalities." (ENS)
The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court on Friday acquitted former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba in an alleged Maoist links case, and ordered his immediate release from jail.
A division bench of Justice Rohit Deo and Anil Pansare allowed the appeal filed by Saibaba challenging a 2017 order of the trial court convicting him and sentencing him to life imprisonment. Saibaba, who is wheelchair-bound due to a physical disability, is currently lodged at the Nagpur central prison.
The bench also allowed the appeal of five other convicts in the case and acquitted them. One of the five died pending hearing of the appeal. (PTI)
A 28-year-old gym trainer, who duped a 30-year-old woman of Rs 13 lakh by promising to use his clout and get her a Canadian visa, has been arrested in Maharashtra’s Mumbai city, police said. The accused is presently in custody of the Samta Nagar police. The woman came in touch with him when she hired his services as a gym trainer to lose weight.
The complainant lives in Kandivali (west) and helps her father to run his business. The complainant had hired the accused Kiran Mandavkar, a Kalwa resident, as her personal gym trainer two years ago. The gym trainer had asked the woman about her future plans during a chat and she told him that she twice tried to get a student visa for Canada but her applications were rejected. (Read more)
Thane district of Maharashtra has reported 83 new coronavirus positive cases, which pushed its overall infection tally to 7,45,711, a health official said on Friday.
These cases were recorded on Thursday, and there are 408 active cases in the district now. The death toll remained unchanged at 11,962 as nobody succumbed to the infection during the day, the official said, adding that the recovery count has reached 7,34,026. (PTI)
A 58-year-old security guard has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor girl at Dongri in South Mumbai, police said on Thursday. The alleged incident took place on Wednesday afternoon when the 11-year-old girl was going for tuition, an official said.
As the girl was alone, the security guard took the victim to a secluded place and sexually assaulted her, the official said. Based on a complaint lodged by the girl's mother at the Dongri police station, the accused was arrested and booked for rape and under relevant provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, he said. (PTI)
THE BOMBAY High Court on Thursday asked the Maharashtra government to take steps as per recommendations of the nodal committee constituted to look into the issue of illegal hoardings, which included amendment in the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act to impose stricter penalties for illegal hoardings in line with the Motor Vehicle Act.
The court also told the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) that unauthorised hoardings or banners put up by political parties without permission could be pulled down ahead of elections. However, it clarified that the civic body should not remove all hoardings indiscriminately as that would violate code of conduct for polls. (Read more)