A professor , who allegedly made derogatory remarks against Union Minister Smriti Irani on Facebook, was sent to jail after he surrendered in a court in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad.
Professor Shaharyar Ali surrendered to additional sessions Judge Aunrag Kumar and filed an interim bail application on Tuesday.
The judge, however, cancelled the bail plea after which the professor was sent to jail, reported news agency Press Trust of India.
Firozabad police had charged Shaharyar Ali, head of the History department at SRK college in March for an alleged obscene Facebook post against the Women and Child development Minister. The college had then served him with a suspension notice.
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