‘Not granted sanction to prosecute professor as one-time magnanimity’

The Haryana Government on Monday told the Supreme Court that it has decided not to grant sanction to prosecute Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad, who was booked last year for social media posts on Operation Sindoor, as a one-time magnanimity.

Appearing for the Haryana Government, Additional Solicitor General SV Raju told a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi that they have closed the issue by not according sanction to prosecute Mahmudabad.

“As a one-time magnanimity, we have closed the issue by not according sanction,” Raju told the bench, adding, “He may be warned not to indulge in similar activity in the future.”

The bench said that since the state has decided not to grant sanction to prosecute Mahmudabad, the proceedings pending before the trial court concerned would stand closed.