New Delhi, May 22 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted interim bail to Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad, arrested for his social media posts on Operation Sindoor, but refused to stay the investigation against him. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh directed the Haryana DGP to constitute a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by an IG rank officer also including a SP rank woman officer within 24 hours to investigate the case.
The court said the interim bail was granted to the petitioner to facilitate further investigation and directed Mahmudabad to surrender his passport. The SIT, the bench said, should comprise three directly recruited IPS officers - not from Haryana but serving in the S...