India, March 5 -- The Bombay high court on Tuesday acquitted former Delhi University (DU) professor GN Saibaba and five others in a case involving alleged Maoist links.

Saibaba and the five others had been sentenced to life imprisonment by a session court in Gadchiroli on March 7, 2017, for their alleged connections with Left-Wing Extremist organisations and for "waging war" against India.

The Gadchiroli district session court had also convicted JNU student Hem Mishra, former journalist Prashant Rahi, Pandu Narote, and Mahesh Tirki under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

Narote passed away at a government-run medical college in Nagpur in August 2022 after contracting swine flu.

A division bench of the Bombay HC, comprising Jus...