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Supreme Court Halts Sedition Case, Quashes One FIR Against Ashoka Professor

The bench signaled tighter limits on Haryana’s SIT after questioning the use of BNS Section 152 for social‑media posts.

Ali Khan Mahmudabad is an associate professor and the head of the department of political science at Ashoka University, Sonipat,
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Overview

  • Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi restrained the trial court from taking cognisance of the chargesheet and from framing charges in the remaining FIR.
  • Haryana Police told the court it filed a closure report in one FIR, which the bench quashed, and a chargesheet in the other.
  • The court ordered the SIT to confine its work to the two FIRs and to complete the investigation within four weeks.
  • The bench recorded that Ali Khan Mahmudabad has cooperated, barred further access to or seizure of his digital devices, and said he should not be summoned again.
  • Senior advocate Kapil Sibal objected to the invocation of BNS Section 152 as the court questioned the SIT’s expanded probe, and the bench sought the state’s response on NHRC’s concerns.