Arrest over Op. Sindoor post: Supreme Court extends Ashoka University professor's interim bail

The top court has limited the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into two First Information Reports (FIRs) which were filed against the professor.

The interim bail was granted by a Supreme Court bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh on May 21.

Professor Mahmudabad is an associate professor and Head of the Department of Political Science at Ashoka University located in Sonepat, Haryana.

The professor was asked to surrender his passport to the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sonepat, not to make any social media post or deliver public speech on the investigation and no comment on Pahalgam terror attack on Operation Sindoor.

The Haryana Police said it should be allowed to place evidence in the course of the probe to seek withdrawal of the interim bail.

The court had asked Mahmudabad to cooperate with the probe.

The top court had directed Haryana DGP to form a SIT of three officers not belonging to Haryana or Delhi by May 22 for proper understanding of the terms used by the professor in the post.

The court had ordered the inclusion of a woman office in the SIT.