Mobile phone recovered from inmate at Model Jail a 3rd time

Chandigarh, April 23

A mobile phone and earphones were recovered from a convict, Rajan Bhatti, lodged at Model Jail here. Bhatti has been caught with a mobile phone for the third time in the past three years.

Warder Surmukh Singh, deployed in the control room of the jail, had informed the Additional Superintendent, Jail, that the activities of convict Rajan lodged in Cell No. 15 were suspicious.

On April 22, the jail staff conducted a personal search of the convict and recovered a mobile phone with earphones from his possession. An Airtel 4G SIM card was also recovered from the phone.

The jail has outdated 2G network jammers, which are ineffective in jamming the signals of 4G phones.

Earlier, in September last year, three mobile phones were recovered from three inmates, including Bhatti.

Bhatti was earlier caught by the jail staff with three mobile phones and SIM cards in June 2018.

The police have registered a case against Bhatti under Section 52A (D) Prisons (Punjab Amendment) Act, 2011, at the Sector 49 police station on a complaint of Amandeep Singh, Deputy Superintendent of the jail. Bhatti having access to phones has raised questions over frisking of visitors by the jail staff. — TNS