Booker-prize winning author Arundhati Roy, Kashmiri law academic Showkat Hussain to be prosecuted for remarks made in 2010.
Roy and a Kashmiri law academic will be prosecuted under Unlawful Activities Act over alleged “provocative speeches” delivered at a conference held in 2010 in New Delhi. / Photo: AFP
The sanction to prosecute Booker prize-winning author Roy was granted on Friday by Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena, top official of the Indian capital. “The issues discussed and spoken about at the conference propagated the separation of Kashmir from India,” Press Trust of India reported.
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