Lock Upp's Mandana Karimi recalls horrific jail experience in Iran when her friends got 85 lashes

Lock Upp contestant Mandana Karimi shared her dreadful jail experience in Iran while speaking to Payal Rohatgi. She revealed that her friends got 85 lashes while she was made to watch it as a punishment.

Mandana Karimi, who is currently seen on Lock Upp, recently opened up on being arrested while she was visiting her country, Iran. Speaking to her co-contestant Payal Rohatgi, she revealed that she was put behind bars for allegedly being intoxicated.

Earlier on Lock Upp, Karan Kundrra had lashed out at Mandana Karimi for playing the woman card. Recently on the show, the actress recalled being arrested and how she was made to watch her friends being beaten up. She said that she was not punished because she was injured at the time and had undergone surgery. However, she was made to watch her friends getting lashed.

Mandana was talking to Payal when she shared, "I went back to Iran for my friend’s sister’s wedding. So, I missed the wedding and then we were all to go to Shomal. It is a place near Tehran. You know, like we go to Lonavala with friends here. So, we went there and in the villa, they had a bike. I love riding bikes, so I was playing around with the bike. While riding it, I had an accident at a turn.”

She further added, "My knee was injured badly and the whole thing busted out. They had to put it all together and I was about to have a surgery. I could hear my friends talking and having full masti time as they waited for me to come out of the operation theatre. But, someone was watching us and realised ‘ye log ka kuch nasha hai (these people seem to be intoxicated)’. When we were changing clothes, we felt a kick on the door and a woman cop fully covered came with a man and asked us ‘get the f*** out’. I was like, ‘Dude, what happened?’ And, the guy who arrested us was one of the fellows who went to war."

Sharing the rest of the story, Mandana shared why she doesn't want to return to Iran. “He wanted to teach us a lesson and that guy made me watch my friends being lashed. All my friends got 85 lashes and they made me watch it as they could not lash me because I was (injured). He told me that I could not escape it all just because of the injury. I had to watch my friends getting the lashes. That was my jail experience. That is the reason I do not want to be in a country that treats its citizens like that," she said.