India, April 28 -- LUCKNOW An assistant professor at Lucknow University was on Monday booked on charges of sedition and causing disharmony for her controversial social media post related to the Pahalgam terrorist attack, calling certain actions based on "religion terrorism".

The FIR was lodged at the Hasanganj police station against Madri Kakoti, assistant professor in the linguistics department, following a complaint by a student leader affiliated to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), said officials.

A day after the Pahalgam attack, Kakoti had posted on X: "If killing people after asking their religion is terrorism, then, lynching, laying them off, not providing home and bulldozing their houses in the name of religion is al...