New Delhi, Feb 13: Former Delhi University lecturer SAR Geelani has been booked for sedition in connection with an event at Press Club of India here, in which a group shouted slogans hailing Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.
“An FIR has been registered against Geelani and other unnamed persons under Sections 124A (sedition), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 149 (unlawful assembly) of IPC in connection with the event at the Press Club in which anti-India sloganeering took place,” DCP (New Delhi) Jatin Narwal said.
The action against Geelani, who was acquitted in the Parliament attack case, comes even as Delhi Police Thursday registered a case of sedition in connection with a Tuesday event at JNU campus here against the hanging of Afzal Guru following complaints by BJP MP Maheish Girri and ABVP.
The police claimed to have registered the sedition case against Geelani and others after taking suo motu cognizance of media clips of the incident.
Police also claimed that Geelani was booked as he is presumed to be the main organiser of the event.
Geelani was acquitted by the Delhi High Court in October 2003, a decision upheld by the Supreme Court in August 2005 which at the same time observed that the needle of suspicion pointed towards him.
