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INDORE: Among those caught up in the Munawar Faruqui row are two brothers from Indore an MBA student, who was starting out as a standup comic, and his minor sibling. Police hadn’t revealed that one of the accused was a juvenile and some officers even named him before mediapersons, which is against the law.
It’s only when TOI met the family that it was learnt a schoolboy had been arrested and spent a week in juvenile remand. The MBA student and three others arrested in the case are still in Indore jail. The family says the student went to Faruqui event to try out his dream of being a standup comic.