Five officials, including the jailer and deputy jailer, have been suspended due to alleged negligence.

Before deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was brought to the United States to face drug-trafficking charges, another Latin American leader had already stood trial in a US court for similar crimes. The outcome, however, was very different.

Shivraj Singh Yadav, a leader of Samajwadi Party and a close aide of party chief Akhilesh Yadav, sparked a huge controversy with his remark that “Yadavs are not Hindus”.