Days After No Bail For Ex-Professor Serving Life Term, His Mother Dies

Former Delhi University professor GN Saibaba, who is serving life term in a jail in Maharashtra for links with Maoists, has lost his ailing mother even as his lawyer made an unsuccessful last attempt to get him see her through video-conferencing.

On Tuesday, the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court rejected the bail application of Saibaba, who had sought release for 45 days on medial grounds so that he could get treatment outside and also meet his 74-year-old mother, who was suffering from cancer, in Hyderabad.

She died in Hyderabad on Saturday, Saibaba's wife said in a statement.

His advocate Akash Sarode told PTI on Sunday that he informed the Nagpur jail authorities through e-mail on Friday that the condition of Saibaba's mother was serious and it was her wish to see her son.