India, May 18 -- Ali Khan Mahmudabad, an associate professor at Haryana's Ashoka University, was arrested on Sunday morning for allegedly making disparaging remarks against women serving in the armed forces and promoting communal disharmony.

Ali Khan Mahmudabad said last week that his remarks, made in reference to the press conferences addressed by Colonel Sofiya Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh on Operation Sindoor, were not misogynistic and that he was being censored.

On May 12, the Haryana women's commission sent a notice to the professor regarding making public statements on Operation Sindoor on social media.

According to the notice, Mahmudabad had said that the "right-wing people applauding Colonel Sofia Qureshi should dem...