Do not probe beyond scope of FIRs, says SC

Tells SIT there was no need for it to ask for Mahmudabad's electronic devices

- Ayesha Arvind

BENGALURU: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe against Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad must be confined strictly to the contents of the two first information reports (FIRs) registered against him over his Facebook posts on "Operation Sindoor" and that there was no need for it to ask for his electronic devices.

A bench of justices Surya Kant and Dipankar Datta clarified that the SIT, constituted by Haryana following a previous order of the apex court, cannot investigate matters "beyond the scope" of the two FIRs already registered against Mahmudabad.