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Probe against Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Arundhati Roy still inconclusive: Police

The Delhi police today told a court here that the probe against Geelani, Roy and four others in a case of of sedition for their alleged anti-India speeches, was still inconclusive.

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The Delhi police today told a court in Delhi that the probe against Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani, writer Arundhati Roy and four others in a case of of sedition for their alleged anti-India speeches, was still inconclusive.

In a status report, filed in the court of metropolitan magistrate Navita Kumari Bagha, the station house officer (SHO) of Tilak Marg police station said that the probe in the case has not concluded.

As the magistrate did not hold the court today, the hearing was deferred to May 5.

The report was submitted on behalf of the SHO, who has sought exemption from personal appearance.

Meanwhile, complainant Sushil Pandit said that he would move a fresh application seeking transfer of case either to the crime branch or to the special cell of Delhi police for early conclusion of the investigation.

"The mandatory 90 days period for filing the charge sheet is also nearing end and the police are still probing the case," Pandit said.

Earlier, the police had sought more time from the court to conclude the probe.

"The investigation is under progress and more time is required to conclude the same," the police had said in its report.

The court had also clubbed three other complaints on the same issue against Geelani, Roy and others for making the alleged anti-India speeches.

Besides Geelani and Roy, the complaint sought prosecution of five others, including Delhi University professor SAR Geelani, who was acquitted in Parliament attack case, and Sheikh Showkat Hussain, a professor of Kashmir University.

According to the complaint, the accused made the comments at a convention here in October last year on 'Azadi-The Only Way'. Hurriyat leader Geelani shared the dais with Roy and pro-Maoist leader Varavara Rao among others. Geelani was heckled by the audience.

The complaint filed under Section 156 (3) of the Criminal Procedure Code in the court on November one had alleged that the government had miserably failed to initiate any action against the "culprits of the anti-India seminar so a private complaint against them has been filed".

The Hurriyat leader had been asked by the police not to leave the capital till further orders.

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