Delhi University professor arrested for alleged Naxal links

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

The sources said some of the documents recovered from the computer were shown to the professor besides being questioned about his association with cadres of the banned outfit. 

Accused of acting as an overground worker for the banned outfit, police alleged the professor 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.