New Delhi: The Home Minister P Chidambaram on Monday said that not filing a case against the booker award winner Arundhati Roy by Delhi Police was in accordance with the letter and spirit of law.
‘Not taking action is also an action’, Chidambaram replied when a journalist asked him that why the police was not taking action against her seditious speech on Kashmir.
“Section 124(A) of the IPC is for deterrence and punishment. The spirit of the law and true interpretation of law is that unless there is direct incitement to violence, the state must show tolerance and forbearance,” he added.
Pertinently, the noted writer recently had said that Kashmir was not an integral part of India.