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40 DU college students, lecturers detained throughout protest on campus in assist of G N Saibaba

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The police right here on Saturday detained round 40 college students and lecturers protesting on the Delhi University’s Arts Faculty with out permission to press for the discharge of former professor GN Saibaba, officers mentioned, hours after the Supreme Court stayed his acquittal by the Bombay High Court in a Maoist-links case.

The Left-backed All India Students’ Association, nevertheless, claimed the variety of detainees is increased, and in addition alleged the protesting college students and lecturers AISA members have been “beaten up and manhandled” by the police.

The protest was organised after the Supreme Court suspended a Bombay High Court order acquitting Saibaba and others in a Maoist-links case.

“Students and professors who were peacefully protesting against the stay on the acquittal and wrongful incarceration of our professor, G N Saibaba were brutally detained, beaten up and manhandled,” AISA National Working General Secretary Prasenjeet.

“Around 60 people were detained. The protestors were taken to two police stations. Some of the students were taken to the Maurice Nagar Police Station and the rest were taken to Burari Police Station,” he added.

The police mentioned the scholars have been informed they weren’t given a permission by the college administration to carry a protest on the campus, however they insisted and “misbehaved with the police and security staff of the university”.

“On Saturday around 2.30 pm, some students having affiliation with AISA and other Left organisations started gathering outside the Arts Faculty, Delhi University North Campus. Initially some five students came and started raising slogans,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (north) Sagar Singh Kalsi mentioned.

“They were explained about the denial of permission to hold protest and were directed to disperse, but instead of dispersing they started calling their other friends for protest and their number rose to around 40,” Kalsi added.

The motion was taken after the college authorities gave in writing to take authorized motion as protesting college students have been disturbing the peace, police added.

“During the process of removal, they resisted and misbehaved with the police and security staff of the university. Now the situation is peaceful,” the police mentioned.

The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court had on Friday acquitted Saibaba and ordered his launch from jail, noting that the sanction order issued to prosecute the accused within the case underneath the stringent provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act was “bad in law and invalid”.

The excessive court docket had additionally allowed the appeals filed by 5 different convicts, acquitting them of all expenses. The prosecution had moved the apex court docket towards the acquittal. Saibaba, 52, is lodged on the Nagpur Central Jail.

NEW DELHI: The police right here on Saturday detained round 40 college students and lecturers protesting on the Delhi University’s Arts Faculty with out permission to press for the discharge of former professor GN Saibaba, officers mentioned, hours after the Supreme Court stayed his acquittal by the Bombay High Court in a Maoist-links case.

The Left-backed All India Students’ Association, nevertheless, claimed the variety of detainees is increased, and in addition alleged the protesting college students and lecturers AISA members have been “beaten up and manhandled” by the police.

The protest was organised after the Supreme Court suspended a Bombay High Court order acquitting Saibaba and others in a Maoist-links case.

“Students and professors who were peacefully protesting against the stay on the acquittal and wrongful incarceration of our professor, G N Saibaba were brutally detained, beaten up and manhandled,” AISA National Working General Secretary Prasenjeet.

“Around 60 people were detained. The protestors were taken to two police stations. Some of the students were taken to the Maurice Nagar Police Station and the rest were taken to Burari Police Station,” he added.

The police mentioned the scholars have been informed they weren’t given a permission by the college administration to carry a protest on the campus, however they insisted and “misbehaved with the police and security staff of the university”.

“On Saturday around 2.30 pm, some students having affiliation with AISA and other Left organisations started gathering outside the Arts Faculty, Delhi University North Campus. Initially some five students came and started raising slogans,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (north) Sagar Singh Kalsi mentioned.

“They were explained about the denial of permission to hold protest and were directed to disperse, but instead of dispersing they started calling their other friends for protest and their number rose to around 40,” Kalsi added.

The motion was taken after the college authorities gave in writing to take authorized motion as protesting college students have been disturbing the peace, police added.

“During the process of removal, they resisted and misbehaved with the police and security staff of the university. Now the situation is peaceful,” the police mentioned.

The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court had on Friday acquitted Saibaba and ordered his launch from jail, noting that the sanction order issued to prosecute the accused within the case underneath the stringent provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act was “bad in law and invalid”.

The excessive court docket had additionally allowed the appeals filed by 5 different convicts, acquitting them of all expenses. The prosecution had moved the apex court docket towards the acquittal. Saibaba, 52, is lodged on the Nagpur Central Jail.

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