Nagpur, March 5 -- The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court on Tuesday acquitted former Delhi University professor GN Saibaba and five other accused in an alleged Maoist links case.

The court acquitted all accused including GN Saibaba, Hem Mishra, Mahesh Tirkey, Vijay Tirkey, Narayan Sanglikar, Prashant Rahi and Pandu Narote (deceased).

The judgment was delivered by a bench of Justices Vinay Joshi and Valmiki SA Menezes who reheard the appeal by Saibaba after the Supreme Court set aside an earlier acquittal order of the High Court.

They set aside the verdict of a sessions court that had convicted Saibaba and others in 2017. The High Court had allowed an appeal filed by Saibaba and five others challenging a 2017 decision of the trial c...