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Police torture, ill-treatment make India ‘high risk’: Report

India has been ranked a “high-risk” country for torture and ill-treatment in the World Organization Against Torture’s first Global Torture Index 2025 that was released on Wednesday.

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Why the world’s most populous country is running low on bodies

Lack of systemic support for body donation, logistical hurdles, and cultural and religious sensitivities force medical students to rely on anatomical models or digital simulations for training. Namita Singh reports

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Let Me Explain: UAPA’s weaponisation of literature and witnesses

From 2014 to 2022, 8,719 people were charged under the draconian UAPA. A majority are languishing in jail, with trials delayed and bail denied, as in the case of GN Saibaba.

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A stolen life: Remembering GN Saibaba, who the State kept imprisoned over a decade

No matter how grave a crime, or how big a gangster, they aren’t placed in the anda (egg-shaped) cell in Nagpur Central Prison. In the prison’s 90-year-old history, I think I was the only one who was put there — Dr GN Saibaba.

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Supreme Court refuses to stay acquittal of former DU professor Saibaba, says there is no urgency

Maoist links case: Supreme Court refuses to stay acquittal of G.N. Saibaba, emphasizing presumption of innocence and lack of urgency.

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G.N. Saibaba | Wheeling into freedom

The Hindu Profiles | Disabled academic G.N. Saibaba's decade-long incarceration, fight for justice, and struggle for human rights amid physical pain and adversity.

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‘Though alive today, every organ is failing me’: GN Saibaba after his decade in prison

“Except for the polio that I’ve had since my childhood, I went to jail without any health issues. But today, I am in front of you though alive, each and every organ failing me,” said GN Saibaba, 59, a former Delhi University professor who was released from Nagpur Central Jail…

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I feel like I'm still in jail: Acquitted former professor G.N. Saibaba

Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Prof. Saibaba recalled his “jail ordeal”

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It is a wonder that I came out of jail alive, says G.N. Saibaba

Former Delhi University professor G.N. Saibaba released from Nagpur jail after acquittal in Maoist links case.

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‘Not anti, only notional’: After GN Saibaba’s acquittal, editorials slam UAPA, ‘shoddy’ investigations

On March 5, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court set aside the conviction of former Delhi University professor GN Saibaba and five others, saying the prosecution had failed to prove its case.

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Free of guilt: On the exoneration of former Delhi University professor G.N. Saibaba and five others

The exoneration exposes the practice of invoking stringent laws based on nothing more than a person’s likely association with or sympathy for extremist groups

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‘Joyful but afraid’: Disabled Indian academic Saibaba’s family on acquittal

Wheelchair-bound ex-Delhi University professor is acquitted after 10 years of imprisonment over alleged Maoist links.

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Bombay High Court acquits DU ex-professor G.N. Saibaba, five others in Maoist link case

Maoist links case: Bombay High Court acquits former DU professor G.N. Saibaba, overturning his life sentence on March 5.

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India must end ‘inhumane’ detention of activist GN Saibaba, says UN expert

Alarm over nearly decade-long detention of former English professor who is 90 percent disabled and bound to wheelchair.

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Justice Rohit Deo of Bombay High Court resigns in open court

Bombay High Court Justice Rohit Deo made an announcement in court saying he has resigned, but did not specify the reason behind his decision

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UAPA being misused by people in power, needs to be repealed, says Kalyan Rao

Protest staged in front of Prakasam Bhavan in Ongole

The Times of India

CCTV camera captures footage of toilet area, G N Saibaba threatens to launch hunger strike in Nagpur jail

NAGPUR: Former Delhi University (DU) professor G N Saibaba, serving a life sentence for Maoist links in Nagpur, has threatened to launch an indefinite fast inside his jail cell if a CCTV camera which allegedly captures footage of the toilet and bathing area is not removed, his family members said…

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CCTV in anda cell of Nagpur jail is breach of privacy, GN Saibaba threatens hunger strike

NAGPUR: Convicted Maoist ideologue and former Delhi University English professor GN Saibaba, now lodged in Nagpur Central Jail, has threatened to go on an indefinite hunger strike till death to protest the installation of CCTV cameras just outside his anda cell. He has alleged that the cameras capture footages of…

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Nagpur jail authorities deny plastic water bottle to G.N. Saibaba, call it a jar: advocate

Saibaba has been requesting Nagpur jail authorities to allow plastic bottle for last three weeks, he says

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India of today ‘like plane flying backwards, headed for a crash’, says Arundhati Roy

The Booker prize winner was speaking during the launch of the book 'Why do you fear my way so much?', a selection of poems and letters by jailed human rights activist G.N. Saibaba

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