The arrest of Delhi University professor G N Saibaba for his alleged Maoist links has not only rattled his colleagues, friends and the intelligentsia, but also security and intelligence agencies closely monitoring the pugmarks of Left Wing Extremists in urban areas.
A top secret dossier on Maoist urban plan accessed by The Sunday Standard reveals that Saibaba and few other Maoist sympathisers were under the scanner of Central intelligence agencies since 2004 for alleged pro-Maoist activities in Delhi. Although Saibaba and his colleagues have denied the charges, the dossier reveals that Maoists have been recruiting professionals including teachers and doctors as over-ground members, who have been regularly attending meetings and contributing to Maoists coffers.
The dossier reveals that Saibaba’s activities were monitored for his alleged role in supporting the Naxal movement. Intelligence reports claim he also travelled to the UK in 2009 to speak on the Naxalite movement on behalf of Coordination Committee of Revolutionary Communists of Britain. Three other UK-based organisations—World People’s Resistance Movement, George Jackson Socialist League and Indian Workers Association—sponsored the event. The dossier said Saibaba’s organisation Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) had organised meetings on Kashmir, advocating the state’s independence from India. Some meetings related to Left Wing Extremism was also organised at his residence in 2010. He organised a meeting for Jan Myrdal, a Swedish author and Naxal sympathiser, sometime in February 2010. Myrdal is said to have played a role in connecting Maoist leaders with over-ground cadres by taking advantage of his “writer’ persona.
A senior intelligence official said Saibaba’s alleged link with top Maoist leader Ganapathy was established after the arrest of JNU student Hem Mishra in Gadchiroli last year. Mishra during interrogation revealed that Saibaba was an over-ground worker and responsible for providing logistical support to Maoists. However, Saibaba in January 2014 denied these charges. After his three interrogations since September 2013, RDF claimed that Saibaba was a victim of police and intelligence policy of undermining all opposition.
A protest march was organised by Saibaba’s friends and supporters on Saturday condemning the “arbitrary” and “illegal” action by the police in connivance with the university authorities.
They claimed Saibaba’s arrest is an attempt to stifle voices of dissent and suppress those who have been vocal against injustice and oppression.
But, the intelligence report on Maoist footprints in Delhi reveals a different version of red terror that has killed 5,772 civilians and 2,065 security personnel in the last one decade. It said Maoist sympathisers are scouting in areas like Badarpur, Model Town, Khoda Colony, Palam, Vasant Kunj and Sahibabad to tap potential cadres from among lawyers, teachers, trade unionists and doctors.
“Delhi has never witnessed violent Naxal incidents as is common in other affected areas, primarily because Delhi is being targeted to tap the intelligentsia, so that they take up the Maoist cause. It is part of a larger Naxal strategy to keep Delhi their safe haven and use the state for activities like recruitment, motivation, ideological training, making inroads among farmers, worker unions and to collect funds,” the dossier said.
“The Maoist plan is aimed at gaining so much strength, arms and people’s support that simultaneous uprising from all the regions of the red corridor could be transformed into mass revolution which would be self sustaining. But, the reverses suffered by Maoists in the recent past have dented their target,” the intelligence agencies said.