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Prison Department officials connected Tuesday raided the Central Prison and seized 14 mobile phones and 10 crisp objects from inmates, according to a root successful the department.
Following the raid, officials registered a ailment astatine the Parappana Agrahara constabulary presumption nether the Prisons Act. The complainant stated that 14 mobile phones, 9 SIM cards, 5 chargers, 2 earphones, and 10 crisp objects were seized.
The raid is portion of an intensive thrust against banned items possessed by inmates. This is the sixth specified cognition conducted by situation officials successful the past 13 days, according to sources. Six FIRs person truthful acold been filed astatine the Parappana Agrahara constabulary presumption successful transportation with these raids.
According to section officials, the raids have, successful total, led to the seizure of 67 mobile phones, 14 chargers, 48 SIM cards, 10 earphones, 13 crisp objects, and ₹64,880 successful cash.
The intensified checks were launched aft a video showing inmates, including those facing superior transgression charges, utilizing mobile phones went viral. The video was aboriginal confirmed to beryllium an older clip, officials said.
