The Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked Maharashtra government and other state authorities to shift a professor of Delhi University, arrested a year back for alleged links with Maoists, to a private hospital in view of his deteriorating health condition in Nagpur jail.

The order was passed by a division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Anil Menon which asked the head of neuro-surgery department of a private hospital in Nagpur to file a report within a week on the deteriorating health condition of the undertrial professor G N Saibaba.