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More scholars on IB radar for ‘pro-Maoist’ ideology
Around six civil society activists — including academicians, student leaders and even representatives of prominent international NGOs — are on the intelligence establishment’s scanner and under constant surveillance in the capital, HT has learnt. According to senior Delhi Police officials, Delhi University English professor GN Saibaba, who was recently arrested, had been on the special cell’s radar for over a decade.
“We maintain a check on six to eight persons whom we have reason to believe have ideological links with the Naxal movement,” said an intelligence official. “They have a sizeable presence in the national capital region and have open contact with several NGOs that are steps away from being officially proscribed by the government,” the official added. Sources told HT that these consisted of senior professors and student leaders across DU, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Jamia Milia Islamia where they are known to organise programmes and discussions ‘based on Leftwing politics and the Naxal movement in the country’; even religion.
On February 26, for instance, the Intelligence Bureau stepped up its surveillance on a prominent faculty member at JNU after he allegedly helped organise ‘an open dialogue’ between students and the representative of an international NGO on the Gujarat riots of 2002.