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| Geelani to be booked for hate speech aimed at breaking India | | | ET DESK
NEW DELHI, Oct 24: Hurriyat's Syed Ali Shah Geelani and few others were likely to be booked in a case by Delhi police for purportedly giving "hate speeches" in a seminar held here Thursday.
A number of separatist groups had met at a conference here to instigate secession and to say that "India cannot be one and must be broken". Official sources said the union home ministry had given a go ahead to Delhi police for registering a case against Geelani and few
others for their anti-India speeches.
An advice from the home ministry's legal department was received that prima facie a case could be registered against Geelani and others for making statements which were seen as an attempt to instigate secession, the sources added. Sources said police had been asked to register a case, which they were expected to do soon. Geelani, who gave a call to boycott the
three interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir, Sunday flew back to Kashmir.
Geelani's speech in New Delhi had triggered sharp reaction from the BJP. BJP leader Arun Jaitley had accused the government of "looking the other way". This, he said, was unacceptable as there was no right of free speech available to break up the country. This was against the sovereignty and integrity of the country and anyone exercising his right of speech in such a manner came under criminal law.
It was an offence against the state, the BJP leader said.However, rejecting the BJP leader's charge, home minister P Chidambaram had said Delhi police would take action in accordance
with law over the speeches made by Geelani and others at a seminar in New Delhi on October 21.
"I strongly reject Arun Jaitley's charge that the Centre was doing nothing when a seminar was held yesterday in which Geelani and others participated," he said in a statement.
Chidambaram said the authorities had videographed the entire proceedings of the seminar and had submitted them to the legal advisers for opinion whether there had been a violation of the law. "If it is established prima facie that the laws have been violated, Delhi police will take action in accordance with the law," he said. At the convention on 'Azadi--The Only Way', Geelani shared the stage with writer Arundhati Roy and pro-Maoist leader Vara Vara Rao, among
others. Geelani was heckled by the audience with one of them throwing a shoe. |
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