NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has ordered lodging of FIR against Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, writer Arundhati Roy and five others for allegedly making anti-India speeches. Metropolitan Magistrate Navita Kumari Bagha also directed the Delhi police today to file a report on this at the next hearing on the 6th of January. The court today rejected the status report submitted by the Delhi Police which said, no offence relating to sedition and other charges were made out against Geelani and others. The court said, there was prime facie cogent evidence against the accused and asked the police to further investigate the allegations and file a compliance report. The court had earlier pulled up the police for failing to submit proper status report on the complaint filed with them by Sushil Pandit on October 28th, seeking registration of FIR against Roy and Geelani. Besides Geelani and Roy, the complaint sought prosecution of five others, including Delhi University professor S A R Geelani, who was acquitted in the Parliament attack case, and Sheikh Showkat Hussain, a professor of Jammu and Kashmir University. According to the complaint, the accused made anti-India comments at a convention in Delhi in October. Reacting to the reports about Delhi court order, Arundhati Roy said that that she would prefer to wait for the FIR to be registered.
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