JAIPUR, India, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Indian-born author Salman Rushdie says he believes police lied to him about hit men having been hired to kill him if he attended the Jaipur literary festival.
Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses" has been banned in India since it was published in 1988 and he has long been a target of Muslim extremists who condemn the book as blasphemous.