Delhi University professor Dr GN Saibaba, who was arrested for links with Maoists, was granted bail by the Supreme Court today. The wheelchair-bound professor was arrested in May 2014. He was granted bail July 2015 but it was cancelled by the Bombay High Court in December last year.

Saibaba, a professor of English at Delhi University's Ram Lal Anand College was arrested by a Maharashtra Police on May 9, 2014, for his alleged links with Maoists. He was arrested on the charges of being a member CPI-Maoist, which has been banned by the government.

The top court while granting bail to Saibaba pulled up the counsel of the Maharashtra government for opposing the court's decision.

"You have been extremely unfair to the accused. If material witnesses have been examined, then why do you want him in jail. You are unnecessarily harassing the petitioner," Justice JS Khehar said.

Saibaba was arrested 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.

Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district police had accused Saibaba of acting as an overground worker for the banned outfit. Police claimed 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 Delhi.