Hyderabad, July 16 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday, July 16, questioned the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on how long the probe against Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad would take and directed the investigation to be completed within four weeks.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi pulled up the SIT's investigations against the professor, who was arrested for his social media posts on Operation Sindoor, for "misdirecting the case."

"We are asking why SIT is, on the face of it, misdirecting itself. They were supposed to examine the contents of the posts," the bench said.

The court also said that professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad need not be summoned to the court hereafter. "Since the petitioner has already ...