India, May 21 -- The National Human Rights Commission, India, on Wednesday issued a notice to the Haryana Director General of Police (DGP) seeking a detailed report on the arrest of Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad.

The notice came just hours after Prof Mahmudabad was granted interim bail by the Supreme Court. The commissionhas sought the report within a week.

In a statement, the commission said it had come across a May 20 media report that "contains a gist of the allegations on the basis of which he has been arrested."

"It discloses prima facie that the human rights and liberty of the said professor have been violated. Therefore, it has deemed it to be a fit case for taking suo moto cognisance of the reported incident,"...