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A probe has been launched aft a drone was suspected to person been flown implicit the Kannur Central Jail successful Kerala, the constabulary said connected Monday (January 12, 2026).
The Kannur Town Police registered a lawsuit pursuing a ailment filed by the Joint Superintendent of the Central Jail connected Sunday, officials said.
According to the FIR, a drone-like entity was seen flying adjacent the cattle shed of the jailhouse betwixt 4.20 p.m. and 4.30 p.m. connected Saturday. The entity aboriginal moved towards the women’s jailhouse section, the FIR said.
The constabulary said jailhouse officials who noticed the entity believed it to beryllium a drone flying wrong the situation premises.
In caller months, respective attempts to smuggle contraband, including drugs, adjacent the Kannur Central Jail person been thwarted.
An probe is nether mode to ascertain whether the drone was utilized to driblet immoderate contraband wrong the high-security area.
Hashish lipid was precocious recovered from a prisoner, they added.
In the aftermath of the incident, situation authorities person decided to intensify information arrangements, including deploying further unit astatine watchtowers to show amerciable drone enactment implicit the jailhouse premises, the constabulary said.
