GN Saibaba, a professor of Delhi University, was arrested by the Maharashtra Police on Friday for his alleged links with Maoists, after questioning him more than four times in the last six months.

“We arrested professor GN Saibaba this morning in Delhi and he will be brought to Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, after taking transit remand in a Delhi court,” said Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Gadchiroli, Ravindra Kadam.

The DU Professor has been arrested on charges of allegedly being a member of a banned terrorist organisation (CPI-Maoist), providing logistics and helping in recruitment for the group, Kadam claimed.

A police team from Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district, hotbed of Maoist activities, arrived this morning and arrested Saibaba, a professor of English with the University.

Student links Gadchiroli police have taken his computer for forensic analysis.

Saibaba’s name cropped up after the arrest of Jawaharlal Nehru University student Hemant Mishra, who had claimed before the agencies that he was acting as a courier between the professor and Maoists holed up in Abujmad forests in Chhattisgarh, official sources said.

Accused of acting as an over-ground worker for the outfit, police alleged he runs an organisation which was acting as a front for CPI-Maoist, a charge denied by Saibaba.

Police claimed that besides Mishra, three other arrested Maoist leaders, including Kobad Gandhy, Bacha Prasad Singh and Prashant Rahi have also named Saibaba as their contact in the national capital.

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