77 phones seized from Central Jail

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, March 6

The sneaking of mobile phones and other prohibited material inside the Amritsar Central Jail has been continuing unabated if the recent seizure is anything to go by.

Central Jail staff confiscated as many as 74 mobile phones from 74 jail inmates taking the total count of seized cellphones to 269 in the past two months. The inmates were booked by the Islamabad police here following a written complaint by Assistant Superintendent of Jail Sarabjit Singh on Monday.

Of the 77 mobiles, 55 were keypad phones and 22 touch phones. Besides, the jail staff seized 55 SIM cards, 11 chargers, two mobile batteries, a dongle, 40 packs of bidis, four heater spring and a pointed weapon made of iron wires.

A case was registered against them. The police said all the accused would be brought on production warrant for ascertaining how the prohibited material was slipped into the jail complex.

On March 2, jail staff seized 54 mobile phones and on February 24, they seized 33 mobile phones. Similarly, 45 mobiles were seized on February 17 and 18 cellphones on January 28. On January 12, staff had seized 45 mobile phones.

Police Commissioner Gurpreet Singh Bhullar had already constituted a SIT which would investigate repeated seizures of mobile phones from the jail. ADCP Darpal Ahluwalia would investigate and DCP Dr Pragya supervise the probe.

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