Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad sent to judicial custody over Operation Sindoor post

A district court in Haryana’s Sonipat on Tuesday remanded Ashoka University associate professor Dr Ali Khan Mahmudabad to judicial custody until May 27, days after his arrest over a social media post linked to the Army’s Operation Sindoor in Jammu and Kashmir. Dr Mahmudabad, who heads the political science department at the private university, was produced in court after the expiry of his two-day police remand. According to his lawyer Kapil Balyan, the police had sought an extension of remand by another seven days, but the court rejected the plea and sent him to judicial custody instead.

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