New Delhi: Maharashtra police arrested one professor of Delhi University for his alleged links with Naxal groups. He had been under the observation of the police for the last six months.

The Professor G N Saibaba was arrested from Delhi and he will be brought to Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, after taking transit remand in a Delhi court.

The Delhi University Professor was arrested on the basis of his links with a banned terrorist organization (CPI-Maoist). He has been accused of providing logistics and recruitment assistances for the group.

A police team from Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district, the stronghold of Maoist activities, were arriving in the capital for taking Saibaba, an English professor with Delhi University, under arrest. Gadchiroli police have already seized his computer for forensic analysis.

The name of Saibaba was projected after the arrest of Hemant Mishra, a student from Jawaharlal Nehru University who claimed before the investigation agencies that he was acting as a messenger between the Professor and Maoists camping in Abujmad forests in Chitchatting.

The sources said that some of the documents recovered from the Professor’s computer have revealed his association with the banned organization.

He has been accused of acting as an overground worker for the banned outfit. The police was doubtful on professor for running an organization acting as a front-line for the banned CPI-Maoist. But, Professor Saibaba has denied this charge.

Police claimed that the other three Maoist activists arrested besides Mishra, have also uttered the name of Saibaba as their contact in the national capital.

Video on the arrest of Delhi University Professor