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Govt incarcerating activists, academics: Arundhati Roy on DU prof's arrest

Roy said people representing secular, anti-caste and anti-capitalist politics posed a threat to the government's disastrous Hindu Nationalist politics

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The NIA accused Hany Babu Musaliyarveettil Tharayil (54), an associate professor in the Department of English, of propagating Naxal activities and Maoist ideology

Press Trust of India New Delhi
Writer Arundhati Roy on Wednesday slammed the government for the relentless and ongoing incarceration of activists, academics and lawyers, a day after an associate professor of the Delhi University was arrested by the NIA in the Bhima Koregaon Elgar Parishad case.

Roy said people representing secular, anti-caste and anti-capitalist politics posed a threat to the government's disastrous Hindu Nationalist politics.

The NIA accused Hany Babu Musaliyarveettil Tharayil (54), an associate professor in the Department of English, of propagating Naxal activities and Maoist ideology and being a "co-conspirator" in the case.

"The relentless and ongoing incarceration of activists, academics and lawyers