The Supreme Court on Monday stayed criminal contempt proceedings against author and Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy for publishing an article expressing her personal anguish in the prosecution and incarceration of paraplegic former Delhi University professor G.N. Saibaba.

Saibaba was, later in March 2017, sentenced to life imprisonment for Maoist links.

When the Bench led by Chief Justice of India J.S. Khehar asked whether she would like to tender an apology for her article and end the case against her, Ms. Roy, through her counsel, bluntly refused the offer.

“This is not at all a case for an apology,” senior advocate C.U. Singh, flanked by advocate Prashant Bhushan, responded to the court.