India, July 16 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday remarked that the probe team looking into two social media by professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad was apparently "misdirecting itself". It added that since Mahmudabad had cooperated with the Special Investigation Team (SIT) and surrendered his devices, he need not be summoned again.

"You don't require him (Mahmudabad), you require a dictionary," Justice Surya Kant said, according to news agency ANI.

Mahmudabad, associate professor and head of the political science department at Ashoka University in Haryana's Sonipat, got interim bail on May 21 after his arrest by the state police on May 18 over two Facebook posts related to Operation Sindoor.

On Wednesday, the bench of Justices Surya Kant and ...