NIA ARRESTS DELHI VARSITY PROF

NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday arrested Delhi University professor Hany Babu Musaliyarveettil Tharayil in connection with the Elgar Parishad case, in which 11 other activists and intellectuals are accused of conspiring with Maoists to foment violence in Maharashtra’s Bhima Koregaon village two years ago. Two NIA officials, who didn’t wish to be named, said Babu, a 54-year-old associate professor of English, was arrested in Mumbai after four consecutive days of questioning.