Delhi L-G approves prosecution of author Arundhati Roy under UAPA in 2010 hate speech case

New Delhi:Lieutenant Governor (L-G) of Delhi V.K. Saxena Friday sanctioned the prosecution of author Arundhati Roy and former Central University of Kashmir professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in an over a decade-old case of alleged hate speech...

The latest sanction for prosecution under UAPA comes eight months after the L-G, in October last year, accorded sanction to prosecute the two under IPCs Section 153A (promoting enmity between different groups), Section 153B (punishment for those who make or publish statements that promote disharmony or hatred between different religious, racial, language, or regional groups) and Section 505 (inciting statements)...

A Delhi court had on 4 December 2010 ordered that the Delhi Police register an FIR against Roy, Hussain, slain separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, poet Varavara Rao,former Delhi University professor S.A.R..

Geelani who was acquitted in the Parliament attack case Shuddhabrata Sengupta and Sujato Bhadra for allegedly making anti-India statements during provocative speeches at a conference held under the banner of Azadi The Only Way and advocating the separation of Kashmir from India..

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