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Matt Dusk sings Sinatra in Halifax/PEI/Moncton | SaltWireNEW DELHI - The Booker prize-winning author Arundhati Roy faces prosecution in India for a speech about Kashmir she gave 13 years ago after a top official approved the move, local media reported on Wednesday.
A social activist from Kashmir filed a police complaint in 2010 following speeches by Roy and three others at a conference organised by a rights group, the reports said. Roy, a fierce critic of India's policy in Kashmir, is accused of saying at the conference that the disputed Himalayan territory was not an integral part of India.
Under Indian laws, the state government's permission is needed for prosecution of certain crimes, including hate speech, sedition, and promoting enmity. Vinai Kumar Saxena, the federally-appointed lieutenant-governor , has allowed Delhi Police to prosecute Roy and Central University of Kashmir professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain under laws relating to promoting enmity, making assertions prejudicial to national integration and causing public mischief, the reports said.The reports did not say why Saxena approved the prosecution after 13 years.Roy, 61, won the Booker Prize for fiction in 1997.
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