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Ali Khan Mahmudabad, head of the Sonipat-based university's Department of Political Science, was arrested on May 18. (File photo)
The Supreme Court Wednesday extended interim bail granted to Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad while seeking a report on the investigation by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) that it had ordered for to look into the case related to his social media posts.
A week after granting interim bail to Mahmudabad, the apex was hearing a plea against his arrest for his contentious posts on Operation Sindoor.
Terming his post “dog-whistling”, a bench of Justices Surya Kant and N K Singh last week had refused to stay the investigation in the two FIRs against Mahmudabad. The court had asked the state director general of police (DGP) to set up a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) comprising senior IPS officers, one of whom would be a woman.
The court had also restrained him from making any online posts or writing any article or deliver speech on the issue which is the subject matter of the case, or making any comment on the terrorist attack recently faced by India which was a terrorist attack on Indian soil or India’s counter response to it.
Mahmudabad was arrested on May 18 days after a show-cause notice issued to him by the Haryana State Commission for Women over his remarks allegedly disparaging women officers in the Indian armed forces.
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