HAD FAITH HE WOULD BE ACQUITTED, THANKFUL TO JUDICIARY: WIFE

New Delhi: "The last eight years have been the longest time we have stayed apart but I was sure that he would be acquitted one day," former Delhi University professor GN Saibaba's wife A S Vasantha Kumari said on Friday.

"Sai and I are childhood friends. But in the last eight years, we were separated. This is the longest we have stayed apart," Vasntha Kumari said.

Saibaba, who was serving as an assistant professor of English in DU’s Ram Lal Anand College, was also terminated from service by the college in March last year.

He was suspended after his arrest by Maharashtra Police in 2014. Saibaba's wife and daughter were receiving half the amount of his salary since his arrest but then, his service was terminated last year.

Asked how they coped with his absence, Vasantha Kumari said, "There was a lot of struggle and patience in last eight years. It was difficult for Sai also since his health deteriorated and he lost his job."

However, she said, "We had faith that he would be acquitted because he did not do anything wrong. There was no crime and no evidence. I am thankful to the judiciary and all those who supported us. He is an intellectual and a professor who only knows how to read and pen his thoughts. He can only teach. It was a false case in which he was in jail," Vasantha Kumari said. (PTI)