[Reader-list] Probe on in case against Arundhati, Geelani: Police

[Sanjay Khak]

Probe on in case against Arundhati, Geelani: Police *Staff Reporter

The Hindu

Link - http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article1045939.ece

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The Delhi police on Thursday submitted a status report to a local court,
which is looking into a complaint against writer Arundhati Roy, hardline
Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, revolutionary poet Varavara Rao and
four others for speeches made at a convention on Kashmir, stating a first
information report had been registered and investigation was progressing.

The FIR was registered at the Tilak Marg police station on November 29 last
following a direction by Metropolitan Magistrate Navita Kumari Bagha.

An organisation, “Roots in Kashmir,” filed a complaint in the court saying
the police had not taken any action on its complaint, filed at the Tilak
Marg station on October 28, against the speeches made at the October 21
convention, “Azadi: The Only Way,” organised here.

On Thursday, the judge clubbed three other complaints received against Ms.
Roy for her speech at the convention with the “Roots for Kashmir” case.

The matter will come up for hearing on February 25.

The investigating officer had excused himself from appearing in court on
Thursday, citing appearance in a Tis Hazari court.

*FIR*

The FIR has been registered under Sections 124A (sedition), 153A (promoting
enmity between different groups and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of
harmony), 153B (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national
integration), 504 (insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and
505 (statements conducing to public mischief) of the Indian Penal Code, and
Section 13 of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.