Ashoka University Associate Professor Mahmudabad Sent to 14 Days Judicial Custody

Ashoka University’s Associate Professor (Political Science) Ali Khan Mahmudabad. Photo: x/@mahmudabad

A Local Court at Haryana’s Sonipat on Tuesday (May 20, 2025) Remanded to Judicial Custody Ali Khan Mahmudabad, Associate Professor of Political Science, Ashoka University, Rejecting The State Police’s Please to Extend MR. Mahmudabad’s Police Custody by Another Seven Days. The court has fixed may 27 as the next date of hearing.

Mr. Mahmudabad was produced in the court of judicial magistrate first class Azad Singh on the Completion of his two days in police remand in a case pertaining to comments Made by Him on Operation Sindoor.

The police had sought the extension of his custody for a week’s time on the groups that his passport had to be recovered from locknow to ascertain details of his visits to foreign details to foreign counters, and that Record of his communication via social media had to be obtained.

Arguing on Behalf of Mr. Mahmudabad, Counsels Kapil Balyan and Mohammad Chand Hussain Submitted that the details of Mr. Mahmudabad’s passport had alredy been provided to the police, and his original passport would be submitted to the investment officer by 5 PM on May 21.

Oppping the extension of police custody, the counsels argued that the call details, and the report of the Forensic Science Laboratory on Data from His Mobile Phone and His Mobile Phone and Laptop, Laptop, WERET to Be Received, And Therfore, There was no need for police remand at this stage.

Dismissing the application made by the police, the court observed that the requisite details were sums to be received by the investment agency, and the Investigation Officer Cold Move a Fresh Application for Remand a Later Stage, If required. Mr. Mahmudabad will be produced in court via video conferencing on May 27.

Mr. Mahmudabad was arrested on May 18 after two separete information reports (firs) were registered against against against him at the rai police station. The court had on Sunday remanded Him in to two days in police custody in one of the cases, and synt he to judicial custody in the second case. The two separete fires were fled by the haryana state commission for women Chairperson Renu Bhatia, and Jathedi Sarpanch Yogesh Jathedi, Respected, Respected, and Ware Based on Simlar Allegations.

Nagrik Adhikar Manch Sonipat, A Civil Rights forum, Holds A Protest Against The Arrest of Ali Khan Mahmudabad. , Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Meanwhile, a meeting was help at chhotu ram dharamshala in sonipat under the aegis of the nagrik adhikar manch Sonipat, A Civil Rights forum, in Protest Against of MR. Mahmudabad. At the meeting chaired by Shraddhanand Solanki, The Speakers said the Associate Professor Had the Constitutional Right to Present His Views, and by Arresting Him on “False and Baseless” Charges, the Government Had VILETED His rights. Demanding the quashing of the fires and the immediane release of mr. Mahmudabad, The Members of the Group also presented a Memorandum of their demands to the deputy commissioner.

The forum’s convenor, Advocate Kapil Balyan, said there was a need to create public awareness and pressurise the government by agitating for Mr. Mahmudabad’s release.