Ajay Jaiswal (19) of Thane's Dnyanasadhana College, was playing at the CKT College Ground in Panvel, for a Mumbai University inter-collegiate football match against SK College, Nerul. There was no stretcher initially to help the defender, who, 10 minutes into the game, broke his shin following a harsh tackle from an opposition forward.

Organisers first brought a ladder on which they tried to place Ajay to take him out of the ground. When this failed, they brought in a school bench. Finally, they got an autorickshaw onto the ground, but Ajay was immobile and wailing in pain all this while. Finally, he was taken to hospital, where it was found he had two fractures.