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Supreme Court Halts Trial on Chargesheet Against Ashoka Professor, Quashes Second FIR

The bench signalled tighter oversight of the SIT by taking up a chargesheet that invokes BNS Section 152, currently under constitutional challenge.

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 magistrate from taking cognisance of the SIT chargesheet and barred the framing of charges for now.
  • The court noted a closure report in one FIR and ordered related proceedings quashed, while recording that a chargesheet was filed on August 22 in the other case.
  • The Supreme Court confined the SIT’s mandate to the social-media posts at issue and criticised earlier overreach, including device seizures and queries about past foreign travel.
  • The bench recorded Ali Khan Mahmudabad’s cooperation, including surrender of devices, and directed that he not be summoned again as the court reviews the SIT report.
  • Mahmudabad faces BNS counts including Section 152 along with Sections 353, 79 and 196(1); he was arrested on May 18 and granted interim bail on May 21, with no final ruling on the merits yet.