NEW DELHI: India`s top court granted bail on Wednesday to a professor arrested for commentating online about the military conflict with Pakistan.

While granting Ali Khan Mahmudabad bail, India`s Supreme Court said he should have avoided`use of complicated words` which could `hurt individuals` and instead used `simpler words to convey his sentiments` The court also directedthe formation of a special police team to probe his comments.

Mahmudabad, a political science professor at Ashoka University and the grandson of the late Raja of Mahmudabad, was arrested on Sunday over a Facebook post criticising those `mindlessly advocating` for war.

He also wrote that the `optics` of two women army officers who had held press briefings `must translate to reality on the ground otherwise it`s just hypocrisy`.-AFP