Sonipat (haryana):
Police said here on Sunday that Ali Khan Mahmudabad, Associate Professor of Ashok University, has been arrested for his social media post on Operation Sindoor. A BJP youthal leader took action on the complaint.
“Ali Khan Mahmudabad has been arrested from Delhi,” Assistant Police Commissioner (ACP) Ajit Singh said on the phone.
He said that he has been arrested for some comments related to Operation Sindoor.
In a statement, Ashok University said, “We have been informed that Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad has been taken into police custody today. We are in the process of detecting the details of the case”.
“The university will continue to cooperate with the police and local authorities in a thorough investigation,” said this.
The arrest was a few days after sending a notice to the Associate Professor for women for Haryana State Commission on his operation vermilion comment.
The notice of May 12 mentions that the panel made “on” made “on” public statements/comments “by Mahmudabad, head of the Department of Political Sciences of Ashok University in Sonipat.
“We salute the daughters of the country – Colonel Sophia Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh.
Mahmudabad’s comments were included in the Commission’s notice, and in one of them, he stated that right -wing people appreciating Colonel Qureshi should demand protection for mob lynching victims and “arbitrary” bulldozing of properties.
Associate Professor described media briefing as “optics” by Colonel Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh. “But optics should be translated on the ground in reality otherwise it is just hypocrisy,” he said.
The Commission said that the initial review of Mahmudabad’s comments has “concerned women’s inequality in uniform, including Colonel Qureshi and Wing Commander Singh and to reduce their role as professional officers in the Indian Armed Forces”.
Wing Commander Singh had informed the media along with Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and Colonel Qureshi on Operation Sindoor.
The Indian armed forces carried out a terrorist infrastructure under sindoor under vengeance for the Pahgam terror attack on 22 April in the early hours of May 7 in Pakistan and Pakistan -occupied Kashmir.
The Associate Professor had earlier stated that the commission has “wrong” his remarks.
Mahmudabad said on X, “I wonder that the Women’s Commission, ending its jurisdiction, misunderstood my positions to the extent and misunderstood that they have reversed their meaning.”
He had said that he had “exercised fundamental rights for thought and freedom of speech to promote peace and harmony and to appreciate the Indian armed forces for their strong action, while criticizing those who preach hatred and want to destabilize India”.
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