Police have registered an FIR against an Aligarh Muslim University professor for sharing posts on social media that allegedly hurt the morale of the security forces in Kashmir.

The FIR cited an “inappropriate post” in which the assistant professor, whose husband is a journalist based in Kashmir, referred to the communication blackout in the Valley after the abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status on August 5.

“Sach mein sampark toot jana kitna khatarnak aur dukhad hota hai, chahe Chandrayaan ho ya Kashmir (Truly, how dangerous and painful can snapping of communication be, whether it is Chandrayaan or Kashmir),” the post said.

The Chandrayaan reference was to the Isro mission that went wrong in September with the Vikram lander losing contact after crashing on the Moon’s surface.

Hindu Mahasabha leader Ashok Pandey, who filed the complaint on November 14 over the weeks-old post, claimed that the comment had indicated that the professor “did not consider Kashmir an integral part of India”.

Huma Parveen, 34, from the AMU’s mass communication department, has been booked under Sections 153-A and 505 (2) of the Indian Penal Code for “promoting enmity” between different groups.

The complaint, lodged at Gandhi Park police station, alleged that her posts were “a threat to the integrity of the nation” and aimed at “harming the morale of the security forces in Kashmir”.

Contacted on Wednesday, Parveen said: “I have not written a single post myself

but have just shared a few posts published either in leading news portals or by some friends.”

According to the professor, she shared these posts with her husband Naeem Shaukat, with whom she had lost contact during the communication blackout.

She said she was a loyal citizen and none of her shared posts remotely suggested that she did not consider Kashmir an integral part of India.

Among the posts shared by Parveen was a quote by poet Rahat Indori, who had said debate and dissent were part of democracy. Another quote, attributed to Mahatma Gandhi, read: “You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy my body but you can never imprison my mind.”

Pandey alleged that the posts were “objectionable”, and some of them tantamount to “taunting the Indian Prime Minister”. But Pandey did not mention a specific post to support this charge.

Senior superintendent of police Akash Kulhari said the matter was being investigated.

AMU spokesperson Shafey Kidwai, who also heads the mass communication department, said: “We will come into the picture only after the police file a chargesheet. The case has been filed on the basis of a complaint by a private individual.”He said all posts shared by Parveen on social media were open to scrutiny and it was now for the police to decide whether there was any objectionable content or not.