Arundhati case: Cops plan charge sheet

New Delhi: Delhi Police is likely to file a charge sheet next week in a case registered against author Arundhati Roy and a former professor in Kashmir under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for their alleged provocative speeches in 2010, official sources said on Tuesday.

Roy and former Central University of Kashmir professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain were booked for allegedly delivering inflammatory speeches at a conference organised under the banner of 'Azadi - The Only Way' at LTG Auditorium, Copernicus Marg on October 21, 2010.

The FIR was registered at Tilak Marg Police Station on a complaint made by Sushil Pandit, a social activist from Kashmir, following the orders of the Court of Metropolitan Magistrate, New Delhi.

The case was later transferred to the Delhi Police Crime Branch for further investigations. According to official sources, over a thousandpage charge sheet has been prepared by the Crime Branch in which Roy and Hussain on the basis of several videos and forensic evidence.

The police have cited over half a dozen eyewitness accounts, the sources said. Delhi Lt Governor V K Saxena had on Friday accorded sanction to prosecute them. (PTI)