As a 21-year-old law intern, Sonu Mansuri had been regularly visiting the Indore district court over the last five months to observe court proceedings and assist her seniors. But on January 28, she became the subject of a viral video, surrounded by a group of lawyers, who grabbed her collar, grilled her, searched her, and termed her a PFI agent.
The lawyers found over Rs 1 lakh in cash in her pockets, and lodged a police complaint alleging that she was taking funds from the prohibited Popular Front of India to get details of “sensitive” cases while impersonating a lawyer. Sonu was arrested the same day, and the media published reports on similar lines – most of them without her version.
