by Gethin Chamberlain in Panaji
The Booker prize-winning novelist and human rights campaigner Arundhati Roy is facing the threat of arrest after claiming that the disputed territory of Kashmir is not an integral part of India.
India's home ministry is reported to have told police in Delhi that a case of sedition may be registered against Roy and the Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani for remarks they made at the weekend.
Under Section 124A of the Indian penal code, those convicted of sedition face punishments ranging from a fine to life imprisonment.
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