India News | Everything Arundhati Roy said is false; Why has the Modi government remained silent so far? : Priyanka Chaturvedi

Mumbai (Maharashtra) (India), June 15 (ANI): Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Priyanka Chaturvedi on Saturday condemned Arundhati Roy’s statement on Jammu and Kashmir, adding that whatever Arundhati Roy said is completely false and Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of it. from India.

Chaturvedi questioned the timing of prosecution of Arundhati Roy by the Modi government under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, given that the case dates back to 2010 and the Modi government has been in power for 10 years .

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“Whatever she (Arundhati Roy) said is completely wrong. Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India. We will protest if anyone wants to create a divide. But the issue is that this case is from 2010 and it is the Modi government which has been at the center for 10 years, why have they remained silent until now on this issue after 10 years, when a government with less? majority has been formed, this decision seems political,” Chaturvedi told ANI.

Delhi LG VK Saxena has sanctioned cases against Arundhati Roy and former Central University of Kashmir international law professor Dr Sheikh Showkat Hussain for allegedly giving provocative speeches at a conference organized under the banner “Azadi – The Only Way”. on October 21, 2010 at LTG Auditorium, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi.

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The LG sanctioned the cases against Arundhati Roy and Sheikh Showkat Hussain under IPC Section 45(1) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

The FIR in the matter was registered on the complaint lodged by Sushil Pandit on October 28, 2010.

Earlier, the LG had granted sanction under Section 196 of the IPC to prosecute the above accused for commission of offenses punishable under Sections 153A, 153B and 505 of the IPC in October 2023.

Roy and Hussain reportedly delivered provocative speeches at a conference organized under the banner ‘Azadi – The Only Way’ on October 21, 2010 at the LTG Auditorium, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi. The issues discussed and raised at the conference propagated ‘separation of Kashmir from India’.

Among those who delivered speeches at the conference were Syed Ali Shah Geelani, HRH Geelani (presenter of the conference and main accused in the Parliament attack case), Arundhati Roy, Dr Sheikh Showkat Hussain and sympathizer Maoist Vara Vara Rao.

It was alleged that Geelani and Arundhati Roy strongly propagated that Kashmir was never part of India and was forcibly occupied by the Indian armed forces and that all possible efforts should be made for the independence of the JK of India and records thereof have been furnished by the complainant.

The complainant filed a complaint under Section 156(3) of the CrPC before the MM Court, New Delhi, which disposed of the complaint by order dated November 27, 2010, with a direction to register an FIR. Accordingly, an FIR was registered and an investigation was carried out. (ANI)

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