India, May 26 -- Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad of Ashoka University, arrested by the Haryana police on May 18 on blatantly trumped-up charges, was granted bail by the Supreme Court on May 21. While the bail order is welcome, the Supreme Court, instead of questioning the arrest and prosecution of the academic by the police not only issued a gag order against him and directed the Director General of Haryana police to institute a Special Investigation Team (SIT) comprising senior IPS officers, who do not belong to Haryana or Delhi, to investigate and understand the 'true' meaning of the post, to "holistically understand the complexity of the phraseology employed and for proper appreciation of of some of the expressions used in the two posts....