The Haryana State Commission for Women has sent a notice to an associate professor of a private university over his Operation Sindoor remarks “disparaging women in the armed forces and promoting communal disharmony”.
The May 12 notice mentions that the panel has taken suo motu cognisance of the “public statements/remarks” made “on or about May 7” by Ali Khan Mahmudabad, an associate professor and the head of the political science department of the Ashoka University in Sonipat.
Indian armed forces hit terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir in the early hours of May 7 under Operation Sindoor in retaliation to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack that killed 22 people, mostly tourists.
The commission said the remarks were in connection with Operation Sindoor and summoned Mahmudabad to appear before it in the matter.
Mahmudabad’s remarks have been annexed to the notice, and in one of them, he said that right-wing people applauding Colonel Sofia Qureshi should demand protection for victims of mob lynchings and “arbitrary” bulldozing of properties.