Associate professor of Sonipat-based university arrested over controversial remarks on Operation Sindoor

Associate professor of Sonipat-based university arrested over controversial remarks on Operation Sindoor

Sonipat:

Ali Khan Mahmudabad, an associate professor at Ashoka University in Haryana's Sonipat, was arrested for his social media post on Operation Sindoor, police said on Sunday. The action was initiated following a complaint lodged by a BJP Yuva Morcha leader.

"Ali Khan Mahmudabad has been arrested from Delhi," Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Rai, Ajeet Singh said. Singh said that he has been arrested in connection with some comments related to Operation Sindoor.

Notice to Ali Khan Mahmudabad 

The Haryana State Commission for Women had recently sent a notice to the associate professor over his Operation Sindoor remarks.

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The May 12 notice mentioned that the panel has taken suo motu cognisance of the "public statements/remarks" made "on or about May 7" by Mahmudabad, the head of the political science department of the Ashoka University in Sonipat.

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Indian armed forces hit terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in the early hours of May 7 under Operation Sindoor in retaliation to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack.

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The associate professor had later said that the Commission has "misread" his comment.

"...I am surprised that the Women's Commission, while overreaching its jurisdiction, has misread and misunderstood my posts to such an extent that they have inverted their meaning," Mahmudabad had said on X.

(With PTI inputs)

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