Alert jail staff recover 5 mobiles in 6 days from jail inmates in Ferozepur
Alert jail staff recover 5 mobiles in 6 days from jail inmates in Ferozepur
Ferozepur, September 6, 2023: Mobile phone usage continued unabated in Ferozepur jail as during the last six days, 5 mobiles and one modified charger had been recovered by the alert jail staff, during the search operations carried out by the Assistant Superintendents.
With the recovery of mobiles, the most wanted banned item, inside the jail, to run the legal and illegal affairs, to stay connected with the families, friends and out world, have while exposed the security arrangements at the entry points, it has also posed a threat when threatening calls from inside the jails, videos are viral on the social media.
Divulging with the details the jail official said, on September 4, two mobiles, one broken and one burnt was recovered from Sandeep Singh alias Seepa. In another, search operation on September , two mobiles with batter but without SIM card and one without SIM card was found from the three jail inmates Salim, Satnam Singh and Gurpreet Singh under trial prisoners already in the jail. In the third such search operation, one mobile and one modified charger was recovered from Makhan Singh under trial prisoner on August 31.
As per the information, so far, more than 260 mobiles have been recovered by the alert jail staff during various search operations, during the current year. But it continued to be a mystery, barring recovery from a few throws from the high walls of the jail, about the smuggling in of the mobiles and other banned items. Moreover, in all such recoveries, no action other than registration of a case under Prisons Act has been shared as taking the prisoners on remand for in depth investigation is not free from high-risk of fleeing the prisoners during shifting.
