[Reader-list] Court asks for report on Geelani, Arundhati speeches

[Khaqsar Wangoo]

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Court asks for report on Geelani, Arundhati speeches
Press Trust of India, Updated: November 03, 2010 17:11 IST

NDTV -
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/court-asks-for-report-on-geelani-arundhati-speeches-64269
New Delhi:  A Delhi court on Wednesday asked the city police to file a
report on a complaint seeking prosecution of hardline Hurriyat leader Syed
Ali Shah Geelani and writer Arundhati Roy on the charges of sedition for
their alleged anti-India statements.

"The Station House Officer of the concerned police station is directed to
file a status report on November 16," Metropolitan Magistrate Navita Kumari
Bagha said.

Earlier, Vikas Padora, counsel for complainant, Sushil Pandit, submitted
that the prima facie case of sedition was made out against the accused as
they had openly challenged the integrity and the authority of Government of
India .

"Being a citizen of this country, the complainant is duly empowered by the
Constitution to seek registration of an FIR against the accused persons for
various offences against the nation," Padora argued.
The complaint, filed under section 156 (3)of CrPC, seeks either registration
of an FIR or a direction to the
police to file a report after probing their alleged anti-India statements at
a seminar here.

 It was alleged that as the government had miserably failed to initiate any
action against the "culprits" of the anti-India seminar, a private complaint
against them has been filed.

Besides Geelani and Roy, the complaint also seeks prosecution of five
others, including Delhi University professor S A R Geelani, who was
acquitted in Parliament attack case, and Sheikh Showkat Hussain, a professor
of Jammu and Kashmir University.

Hurriyat leader Geelani had shared the dais with Roy and pro-Maoist leader
Vara Vara Rao among others during the convention, 'Azadi-The Only Way.'

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