Posts on Operation Sindoor: SC to hear Ashoka varsity prof’s plea against arrest on May 21

Posts on Operation Sindoor: SC to hear Ashoka varsity prof’s plea against arrest on May 21

Posts on Operation Sindoor: SC to hear Ashoka varsity prof’s plea against arrest on May 21

New Delhi, May 20 (PTI) The Supreme Court would likely hear on Wednesday a plea of Ashoka University’s faculty Ali Khan Mahmudabad against his arrest for his social media posts over Operation Sindoor.The top court’s causelist shows a bench comprising Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar will be hearing the matter.

On May 19, senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the associate professor, mentioned the case for urgent hearing before a bench headed by Chief Justice B R Gavai.

Mahmudabad was arrested on May 18 after two FIRs were lodged under stringent charges, including endangering sovereignty and integrity, for his social media posts over Operation Sindoor.

He was produced before a local court in Sonipat on May 18 and was remanded in police custody for two days in a case registered on a complaint from the Haryana State Commission for Women (HSCW) filed a day before.

On Tuesday, the Sonipat court remanded him to judicial custody till May 27 after the completion of his police custody.