Phone usage continues unabated, banned items found in packet thrown in Ferozepur jail
Phone usage continues unabated, banned items found in packet thrown in Ferozepur jail
Feroezepur, January 6, 2024: Phone usage continued unabated in Ferozepur jail and banned items were found in the packet thrown inside the jail. In the recent search operation carried out on January 4, one mobile was recovered from prisoner Vansh with a SIM card and from the packets thrown over the high walls, 45 sachets of tobacco, 4 cool lips, one cigarette pack and 3 bundles of ‘bidis’. On the first of the current year, 11 mobiles, 4 chargers, 4 data cables, and 326 intoxicant capsules were seized from Ferozepur Jail
Two cases under Sections 52-A and 42 have been registered at the City police station on the complaint of Sarbjit Singh Assistant Superintendent and further investigations are on with Gurmail Singh, IO.
Earlier, the Ferozepur jail has been in highlight during the last year with the recovery of more than 500 mobiles besides other banned items and in an astonishing case of making of 43,000 calls from mobiles, by three drug smugglers, from the jail resulting in the arrest of seven officials and 4 smugglers involved in the scam. It is said that those arrested actively helped the inmates and did not take action when mobiles were recovered from them.
Despite the tight security arrangements in and outside the jail, the mobiles – the most wanted banned item – continued to reach to the prisoners, to remain in touch with the outer world for illegal means, losing the purpose of keeping the accused as punishment behind the bars. In such a state of affairs, the connivance of jail officials cannot be ruled out. The security at the entry points needs to be plugged besides banning the visitation from whom the mobiles are recovered as another punishment.
