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The Supreme Court has granted interim bail to Ashoka University Associate Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad for his comments about the press briefings on Operation Sindoor. The court also instructed the Haryana Police to form a special investigation team to look into the meaning of the words used by Mahmudabad.

The associate professor, who heads the political science department at the university, was arrested on Sunday after being booked in two cases for his social media posts highlighting the apparent irony of Hindutva commentators praising Colonel Sofiya Qureshi, who represented the Army during the media briefings about the Indian military operation.

Mahmudabad suggested that they should also call for justice for victims of mob lynching and “others who are victims of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s hate mongering”. The top court has barred him from posting or publishing any content related to the social media posts under scrutiny.

After being reprimanded by the Delhi High Court, commentator Abhijit Iyer-Mitra has said that he will take down social media posts in which he made allegedly sexually abusive...