Mumbai: A special court on Tuesday extended till August 7 the NIA custody of Delhi University’s associate professor Hany Babu, who was arrested in connection with the Elgar Parishad case.Hany Babu Musaliyarveettil Tharayil, 54, associate professor in the Delhi University’s Department of English, was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) last week. Babu was the 12th public intellectual to have been arrested in the case.The NIA submitted that the accused had links with the CPI (Maoists). Babu’s wife, Miranda House professor Jenny Rowena, had told The Wire, “The officers interrogating him kept asking him if he suspected his students, co-workers or anyone else who could have perhaps done this. They wanted him to implicate more people.”The special court had last week remanded him in NIA custody till August 4. As his custody ended on Tuesday, he was produced before the court by the probe agency.Also read: More Than 2,000 Activists and Scholars Extend Support to Hany BabuSeeking his custody further,the NIA informed the court that some 1.26 lakh mails have been recovered from his email account and they need to be scrutinised. His social media accounts, which were used for communicating with other accused persons, suspects and sympathisers of CPI (Maoists) also needed to be scrutinised, it said.Rowena, who has been in touch with Babu through these six days of gruelling questioning had told The Wire that the NIA has been asking him about a disk partition that existed in his computer between February and April 2019. “Babu kept telling them [NIA officials] that he never made these partitions. But they insisted that it existed and contained 62 files with “incriminating details” about his involvement in the Maoist movement,” Rowena had said.The NIA further said investigations “revealed” that Hany Babu was in contact with the other arrested accused and they were involved in “raising funds for Maoists released from prison.”The NIA also alleged that the accused “promoted enmity between various caste groups which had led to violence, loss of life and statewide agitation.”After hearing the probe agency’s submission, special court judge R.R. Bhosale granted the accused’s custody to NIA for three more days.Also read: ‘Knowledge Deemed Crime Against the State’: Students, Professors Stand With Hany BabuThe case relates to alleged inflammatory speeches made at the Elgar Parishad conclave held in Pune on December 31, 2017, which the police claimed triggered violence the next day near the Koregaon-Bhima war memorial located on the outskirts of the western Maharashtra city.The Pune police filed a charge sheet and a supplementary charge sheet in the case on November 15, 2018 and February 21, 2019, respectively.The NIA took up the investigation in the case on January 24 this year.(With PTI inputs)