Mobile phone seized from jail inmate

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, June 14

Once again security arrangements at the Central Jail have come under scanner following the recovery of a mobile phone and a battery from an inmate of the jail located at Gobindpura in the district on Wednesday.

A checking was carried out by the jail authorities on Wednesday. The jail superintendent, in a complaint lodged with at the Cantt police station, said the authorities were conducting a checking inside the jail when they recovered the items.

Investigating officer Darshan Singh said a case under Section 188 of the IPC and Section 52 of the Prison Act, 1894, had been registered against jail inmate Gurpreet Singh, a resident of Baghwali village, at the Cantt police station on the basis of the complaint lodged by the jail superintendent.