New Delhi, May 21 -- The NHRC has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report regarding the arrest and remand to custody of Ashoka University Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad in Haryana. The NHRC has alleged that in arresting the HoD of Political Science, the "human rights and liberty of the Professor" was violated. The NHRC in the letter to Director General of Police, Haryana, has called for a detailed report in the matter within one week.

Ashoka University Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad was granted interim bail by the Supreme Court of India. Justice Surya Kant said, "When the choice of words is deliberately made to insult, humiliate or cause discomfort to other persons, the learned professor cannot have the lack of dictionary words...he co...