Optics of disproportionate action: Posts that led to Ashoka professor Ali Khan’s arrest far from anti-women, seditious

Ali Khan Mahmudabad, an associate professor who teaches political science at Ashoka University, was arrested on Sunday, May 18. The arrest comes ten days after his Facebook post on the India-Pakistan conflict ruffled feathers. Khan had remarked on the ‘optics’ of the press briefings by the defence forces by placing a Muslim woman officer, Colonel Sophiya Qureshi as the face of India’s military operation. Two complaints were filed against him with the Haryana police; one by the Sarpanch of Jatheri and another by Renu Bhatia, chairperson of the HARYana State Commission for Women (HCW) The HCW complaint against Khan, accessed by Alt News, expresses concern over his remarks because it disparages women in uniform, misrepresents facts (by using terms like “genocide” and “dehumanisation” in the posts) and vilifies military actions and the role of women officers against cross-border terrorism.

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