[Reader-list] Complaint Filed Against Geelani, Arundhati in Delhi

[Sanjay Khak]

*Complaint Filed Against Geelani, Arundhati in Delhi

New Delhi | Oct 28,
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PTI*

A complaint was filed in a city police station here today seeking action
against hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani and writer Arundhati
Roy among others for allegedly making inflammatory speeches at a seminar
here.

Police said the complaint was filed at Tilak Marg police station.

The government, however, has decided not to file any case against Geelani
and Roy for purportedly giving "hate speeches" at the seminar last week.

The decision was taken after considering various issues and it was decided
that such a move would give unnecessary publicity to them and a handle to
separatists in the Valley, officials in the Union Home Ministry said.

The complainant, Sushil Pandit, meanwhile, said they had waited for the
government to take action against those spoke for secession of Kashmir from
India but were forced to file the complaint as no case was registered
against Geelani, Roy or others like Maoist sympathiser Varavara Rao and
S.A.R Geelani.

At the convention on 'Azadi--The Only Way', Geelani had shared the stage
with writer Roy among others. Geelani was heckled by the audience with one
of them throwing a shoe at him.

"If there is no action within next 72 hours, we will use further legal
rights available with us to get the accused booked. We will move court," a
statement from an organisation Roots of Kashmir said.