SC grants interim bail to Ashoka University Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad, calls his post on Op Sindoor ‘dog whistling’
Ashoka University Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad Bail: The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted interim bail to Ashoka University Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad, who was arrested by the Haryana Police over his social media post on Operation Sindoor.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N K Singh, however, refused to stay the investigation in the two FIRs against him and termed his post “dog-whistling.” The court 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.
Granting Mahmudabad the interim relief, the court 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.
