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New Delhi: Famous writer Arundhati Roy is in the news again. Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has approved prosecution under UAPA against Arundhati Roy and former Kashmir Professor Shaukat Hussain for allegedly making inflammatory speeches at a program organized in Delhi in 2010.
A conference called ‘Azadi the Only Way’ was held on 21 October 2010 at the LTG Auditorium, Copernicus Marg, Delhi. Arundhati Roy and Professor Shaukat Hussain participated in this conference. It is alleged that both of them gave an inflammatory speech at that convention. Social activist Sushil Pandit filed an FIR against the duo on 27 November 2010. Now the Delhi LG has given permission to prosecute Arundhati Roy and Shaukat Hussain, a former professor of international law at the Central University of Kashmir, in the 14-year-old case -this was under Section 451 of the UAPA (Unlawful Activities (Prevention)) Act.
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Apart from Arundhati Roy and Sheikh Shaukat Hussain, many others associated with the controversy attended the ‘Azadi the Only Way’ conference. The conference was attended by the separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, the speaker of the conference, SAR Geelani who was acquitted in the Parliament attack case, Varavara Rao and many other speakers. It is important to note that Syed Ali Shah Geelani and SAR Geelani are dead.
File a case under these sections
Delhi police had sought permission from Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinay Kumar Saxena to prosecute Arundhati Roy and Shaukat Hussain under Sections 124A, 153A, 153B, 504, 505 and UAPA Section 13 of the Indian Penal Code. Last year, in October, LG Vinay Saxena had asked the duo to be prosecuted only under IPC sections, but now he has approved prosecution under UAPA.
FIR after this provocative speech
Social activist Sushil Pandit alleged that Arundhati Roy and many other speakers during the conference threatened the peace and safety of the public with their speeches. Writer Arundhati Roy had spread the ideology of secession of Kashmir from India through her statements. Arundhati Roy is said to have said in that conference that Kashmir was never part of India, it was forcibly occupied by the Indian armed forces.
The complainant Sushil Pandit had produced a video recording of that conference before the Metropolitan Court and based on it the court had ordered the Delhi police to register a case against Arundhati Roy and Shaukat Hussain.
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Who is the author Arundhati Roy?
Arundhati Roy is a famous writer of the country. His book ‘The God of Small Things’ won the Booker Prize in 1997. ‘The God of Small Things’ is Arundhati Roy’s first novel and she is the first Indian woman to win the Booker Prize. In 2014, Times magazine named writer Arundhati Roy one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Arundhati Roy’s articles on social and political issues are often published in leading newspapers and magazines across the country and the world. In September 2023, he was awarded the 45th European Essay Lifetime Achievement Award for his collection of essays ‘Azadi’, published in 2021.
Arundhati Roy’s statements regarding Kashmir and the central government are often controversial. Not only that, he was also part of the campaign against the Sardar Sarovar Dam project on the Narmada river in Gujarat along with Medha Patkar.
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