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The Delhi Police booked author Arundhati Roy, Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani and others on charges of sedition for their anti-India speech at a seminar here last month. They were booked following court orders which came following a petition by one Sushil Pandit in a local court on Saturday. The petitioner had alleged that Geelani and Roy made anti-India speeches at a conference on Azadi The Only Way on October 21, a senior police official said. Syed Ali Gilani and Arundhati Roy had shared the dias with Maoist sympathiser Vara Vara, Delhi University Professor, Syed Abdul Rehman Gilani, Jammu and Kashmir University Professor, Sheikh Showkat Hussain, Shuddharbrata Sengupta, Sujato Bhadra and others during the seminar Azadi-the only way on October 21.It is to mention here that the maximum punishment, if convicted, is life imprisonment for the offence.
