Release of DU professor Saibaba demanded
The grandson of B.R. Ambedkar and IIT-Kharagpur professor Anand Teltumbe has demanded unconditional release of Delhi University professor G.N. Saibaba, who is lodged in Nagpur jail after police booked him for alleged links with Maoists. Speaking at a round table conference organised by Democratic Teachers’ Network, Prof. Anand said the government harassed people who did not toe its line by keeping them in prison for long periods. He recalled in this connection, the detention of activist Binayak Sen and several others.
“Primarily, we demand Prof. Saibaba’s immediate and unconditional release, proper treatment and medication and withdrawal of the false cases foisted on him,” he declared. Revolutionary writer Varavara Rao said there was no logic in the arrest. He recalled several precedents, including the order of a five-judge High Court Bench that ruled encounters by police as culpable homicide. Also, there was a Home Ministry circular that spoke of ‘thought-makers’ outside prison being more dangerous than those inside. DTN convener S. Ratnam presided over the meeting.
Other speakers included Prof. Harjinder Singh and Anupama of Hyderabad Central University, Anwar Khan of All India Teachers’ Association and DTN members Indira Kaveri, Thadhagath, K. Ravichander of Revolutionary Writers’ Association, who deplored the government mode of suppressing voices against it. They regretted that from registering criminal cases against people for dissident action and grave crimes, the government was now acting against people even on the basis of their thoughts and expression.
At a roundtable, speakers condemn the government act of harassing the professor by foisting false cases on him.
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