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Rajasthan Police invented plot to keep me away: Rushdie
Sunday January 22, 2012 11:03:50 AM,
IANS
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Jaipur: Controversial
author Salman Rushdie Sunday said the Rajasthan Police "invented"
a plot to keep him away from the Jaipur Literature Festival by
claiming they received a call from Mumbai underworld about him
being killed if he visits the event.
"'Rajasthan police invented plot to keep away Rushdie' I've
investigated, & believe that I was indeed lied to. I am outraged
and very angry," the writer of the banned "The Satanic Verses"
posted on Twitter.
The Rajasthan Police refused to comment on Rushdie's charge that
it had concocted the story about assassins from the Mumbai
underworld hired to kill him in Jaipur.
Sources in the police said they had intelligence about threat to
the author.
Rushdie Friday announced that he had called off his visit to the
Jaipur Literature Festival after intelligence sources told him
that paid assassins from the Mumbai underworld were out to kill
him.
"For the last several days I have made no public comment about my
proposed trip to Jaipur at the request of the authorities in
Rajasthan, hoping that they would put in place such precautions as
might be necessary to allow me to come and address the Festival
audience in circumstances that were comfortable and safe for all,"
Rushdie then said in a statement read out by the organisers of the
festival.
"I have now been informed by intelligence sources in Maharashtra
and Rajasthan that paid assassins from the Mumbai underworld may
be on their way to Jaipur to 'eliminate' me," he had said.
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