Haryana-Based mostly Ashoka College Professor Held For Remarks On Operation Sindoor | India Information

Ali Khan Mahmudabad, 42, who teaches political science at Haryana-based Ashoka College, has been arrested for remarks on Operation Sindoor.  

Mahmudabad was arrested on a criticism filed by Yogesh Jatheri, the final secretary of the BJP Yuva Morcha in Haryana, sources stated.

Ali has been arrested underneath sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita pertaining to inciting armed riot or subversive actions and insulting spiritual beliefs.

Additionally, sedition prices have been filed in opposition to him.

Police are, nevertheless, but to difficulty an official assertion on his arrest.

“Haryana police have illegally arrested Dr Ali Khan. Taken to Haryana from Delhi with out transit remand. FIR at 8 PM. Police reached his house the subsequent morning at 7 AM,” Delhi College professor Apoorvanand stated in a put up on X.

“The Delhi Excessive Court docket and the Supreme Court docket should intervene. Please see the Pravir Purkayastha judgment of the Supreme Court docket,” he wrote.

Haryana State Fee for Girls Chairperson Renu Bhatia took suo motu cognisance of Mahmudabad’s remarks, which have been alleged to be disparaging towards girls within the Indian Armed Forces and selling communal disharmony. The fee summoned the professor, however he failed to look.

Later, he stated the fee had “misinterpret” his remark.

“…I’m shocked that the Girls’s Fee, whereas overreaching its jurisdiction, has misinterpret and misunderstood my posts to such an extent that they’ve inverted their which means,” Mahmudabad had stated on X.

Concerning the arrest of the professor, Ashoka College stated, “We’ve got been made conscious that Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad has been taken into police custody earlier immediately. We’re within the technique of ascertaining particulars of the case. The college will cooperate with the police and native authorities within the investigation absolutely.”