Ashoka University professor arrested on BJP leader's complaint for remarks on Operation Sindoor
Ashoka University Associate Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad has been arrested for his comments about the press briefings on Operation Sindoor based on a complaint by a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s youth wing, his lawyer confirmed to Scroll.
Mahmudabad has been arrested under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita pertaining to acts prejudicial to maintaining communal harmony, inciting armed rebellion or subversive activities and insulting religious beliefs.
The case was filed based on a complaint by Yogesh Jatheri, the general secretary of the BJP’s Yuva Morcha in Haryana.
Earlier this week, the Haryana State Women’s Commission had claimed that Mahmudabad’s comments about the media briefings “disparaged women officers in the Indian armed forces and promoted communal disharmony”.
In a social media post on May 8, Mahmudabad, the head of the university’s political science department, had highlighted the apparent irony of Hindutva commentators praising Colonel Sofia Qureshi.
“Perhaps they could also equally loudly demand that the victims of mob lynchings, arbitrary bulldozing and others who are victims of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s hate mongering be protected as Indian citizens,” he had said.
Mahmudabad had said that the optics of the press briefings by Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh were important, “but optics must translate to reality on the ground otherwise it’s just hypocrisy”.
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