“We were made to clean toilets and drains in the Khandwa jail and were called traitors by the jail inmates. When we entered the jail, nearly a dozen senior jail inmates slapped each one of us and abused us,” recollected Mansoori, a tailor by profession. The police claimed the Muslim men had burst crackers and then shouted pro-Pakistan slogans after the match. The arrests and sedition charges against the 15 men triggered nationwide outrage, prompting the police to drop the charge a week later. He and the other men alleged that the inmates were particularly hostile to them since they faced sedition charges.

Source: Hindustan Times June 29, 2017 13:20 UTC