Arundhati Roy against the arrest of G.N Saibaba:

Arundhati Roy against the arrest of G.N Saibaba:

It is “illegal abduction which amounted to a human rights violation” for the 90 per cent disabled and wheelchair-using professor. She said it was not a random act but a consistent effort by those in power to show that they could “do what they wanted, when they wanted and to whom they wanted,” and to people who spoke up for the rights of the downtrodden. And, that too, even in the time of election when the eyes of the public were on the people in power.

“The last time they raided Dr. Saibaba's house, they took away his things and the seizure memo was not shown to any of the professors who were waiting outside, instead they got the memo signed by someone uneducated that they found on the road. They did not take his things for nothing, they had the opportunity to doctor whatever they want to prove. They can now do this to any of us, take away our cell-phones and implicate us,” she said, calling the “Special Cell,” of the police a “genetically-modified cell.”