More than six years after 17 Muslim men and two minors were accused of celebrating Pakistan’s victory in a cricket match in June 2017, a Madhya Pradesh court found the case was fabricated after the Hindu complainant and government witnesses said the police forced them to make false statements. Apart from the lies that upended their lives, the men, freed in October 2023, have alleged they were beaten and verbally abused in police custody. One acc…
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