Hyderabad: Former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba died at a state-run hospital here due to post-operative complications, seven months after he was acquitted in an alleged Maoist links case.
He was 54.
Saibaba was suffering from gall bladder infection and was operated on two weeks ago, but developed complications subsequently. He breathed his last around 9 pm on Saturday, an official told PTI.
However, on March 5 this year, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court overturned his life sentence. Justices Vinay Joshi and Valmiki SA Menezes acquitted Saibaba and the other accused due to insufficient evidence, leading to his release from Nagpur Central Jail on March 7.
Saibaba had been an English professor at Delhi University’s Ram Lal Anand College since 2003, but his arrest in 2014 led to his suspension.
