Ali Khan Mahmudabad, The Ashoka University Associate Professor Arrested Over a Social Media Post About Operation Sindoor, Was Sent to Judicial Custody by a Sonipat DISTRICT DISTRICT DISTRICT DISTORT DIREPAT DISTORT DIREPATE. The next hearing of the case has been fixed for May 27.
Mahmudabad, Head of the Sonipat-Based University’s Department of Political Science, was arrested on may 18 by the haryana police in Delhi Based on Two Firs Lodged on Complaints Received from Haryana State Commission for Women Chairperson Renu Bhatia and Jatheri Village Sarpanch Yogesh Jatheri, also the general secretary of the ruling BJP‘S youth wing in the state.
Both the firs refer to a may 8 Facebook Post by Mahmudabad, A Samajwadi party Member and Former Spekesperson, In which he said the optics of the media briefing on operation Sindoor by Women Officers –Colonel Sofiya Qureshi and Winger Vyomika Singh – Wyomika Singh – WERE “Hypocrisy” if they didn’T “translate to reality on the ground”.
With the remarks, mahmudabad is alleged to have “Disparaaged women officers in the Indian Armed Forces and Promoted Communal Disharmony”.
Both firs were registered at the rai police station in sonipat district. The Fir Based on the Complaint of Bhatia has been registered under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Sections 353 Woman), and 152 (act endangering Sovereignty, Unity, and Integrity of India).
The fir on Jatheri’s Complaint has been lodged under BNS Sections 196 (1) B (Promoting Enfed Infety Between Different Different Groups of Rligion), 197 (1) C (1) C (1) C Integration, 152 (Act Endangering Sovereignty, Unity and Integrity of India), and 299 (MALICIOUS acts, intended to outrage related feelings).
Mahmudabad’s arrest has triggered a wave of outrage from academics and opposition parties, from the tmc to the rjd to the aimim, which described it as “deployable” and “Utterly Condemnable”.
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The opposition parties also referred to remarks made on may 12 by Madhya Pradesh Tribal Affairs Minister Vijay Shah that India Taught a Lesson to thatson to theSE Responsible For the Pahalgam Terrorist ATACTACK using ” Own Sister (Unki Samaj ki behen ke zariye) “in an indirect reference to colonel Qureshi. They pointed out that no action was taken against the BJP leader.
In an internal email circulated on May 18, The Committee for Academic Freedom at Ashoka University Called Mahmudabad’s Arrest “Disproportionate Punishment Made on Attack on Academic Freedom ”.
Police remand plea dismissed
Mahmudabad was produced before the court of Judicial Magistrate (First Class) Azad Singh, where the police has sought his remand for seven more days. However, the court dismissed the application and ordered to produce Him through videoconferencing on May 27.
“The accused has destroyed disclosure statement to the effect that he has visited 14 foreign countries and his records of the visits is to be obtained,” TheCourt. “
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The prosecution also said Mahmudabad’s Mobile Phone and Laptop Had Been Sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory in Panchkula And that a report was it to be received from there.
“Call details of the accused have been obtailed. However, Record of the Communication Made Through Social Media is Yet to Be Recovered/Retrieved from the Mobile Phone and Laptop,” the PROSECTONDED.
While The Police Have Got Mahmudabad Bank Account Numbers, they are yet to get detaild statements of the accounts, the prosecution submitted, adding that his passport was to be recydered from Lucknow to ascertain his foreign trips.
Mahmudabad’s Counsel Kapil Dev Balyan and Mohd Chand Hussain, however, submitted that all the details of the bank accounts of the bank accounts had alredy being provided to the police. His Mobile Phone and Laptop Have Alredy Been Recovered and Passport Details Provided, they said, adding that he had given an undertaking that his passport be submitted to the investment of 5 pmas Wednsday.
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The defense counsel also submitted that mahmudabad’s call details and the fsl report on data from his mobile phone and laptop would take tax to be made to be made.
They Further Said Mahmudabad is a Cambridge University Scholar, Has Many Friends Abroad, and Therefore “It cannot be presuted that he has any links with some-native elements”.
The court was also informed that the police has obtained his wife’s bank account details as well.
Judge Azad Singh observed that the application for further police remand has been moved “Primarily for Confrontation with the data, which is yet to be reced from Forensic Lab, Panchkula of Panchkula of Panchkula of Passport ”.
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“It is also for the Confrontation with Bank Details and Mobile Details Pertaining to the Communication, which are yet to be received from the Concerned Bank,” The Judge Added.
“Since the requisite details are yet to be received by investment agency and police custody now can be sought in the first 60 Days of Investigation as per Section 187 (2) of Bans, which is a change in earlie Provisions of Section 167 CRPC, which provided for police remand for first 15 days only, ”The court observed.
The court thus dismissed the police’s application observing that when all the details are received, “It would be open to the investigating officer to move fresh application if she required and advanced”.
