P’kula police recover cell phones from Ambala jail

Rajinder Nagarkoti

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, June 26

The Panchkula police have recovered mobile phones from Ambala jail in connection with the prisoner’s escape.

A senior Panchkula police official said during interrogation of Satbir Singh, who was lodged in the same barrack, along with gangster Deepak Kumar, in the Ambala jail, had revealed that gangster Sampat Nehra, who freed Deepak Kumar, from the police custody, had provided mobile phones.

The official said Nehra had provided mobile phones to Deepak Kumar, Joginder Singh and Satbir Singh, who all were members of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang and languished in the Ambala jail. All three with the help of mobile phones had planned Deepak’s escape with Sampat Nehra and Mandeep, alias Mani.

Now the police had recovered these mobile phones and a separate case of mobile phones was also registered in Ambala, he said.

Till date, the police have arrested Mandeep, alias Mani, whereas Joginder and Satbir were brought on production warrant from the Ambala jail.

The three armed men of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang had fired into the air, used pepper spray on the hospital staff and the police and freed gangster Deepak Kumar, who was brought from the Ambala jail to the Panchkula hospital for a medical examination on June 17.

In the Haryana Prisons Department report in the escape of undertrial Deepak Kumar from the police custody on June 17, Vishal Chhibber, Deputy Superintendent (Prisons) (Administration), and Balwinder Singh, a doctor of the Ambala jail, were held responsible.

Use of mobile inside the jail

In the report submitted by the DGP (Prisons) KP Singh to Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Ram Niwas, it was stated that there was a rampant use of mobile phones inside the Ambala jail. Deepak Kumar was in touch with other gang members - Lawrence Bishnoi and Sampat Nehra - through WhatsApp before the escape.

The case

The three armed men of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang had fired into the air, used pepper spray on the hospital staff and the police and freed gangster Deepak Kumar, who was brought from the Ambala jail to the Panchkula hospital for a medical examination on June 17.