Arms, ganja and phones recovered from Bengaluru central jail.
Bengaluru’s Central Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths underneath joint commissioner of police (Crime) Sandeep Patil, carried out a raid at Bengaluru central jail within the wee hours of Saturday and seized enormous cache of deadly weapons, narcotics substances and cellular phones from infamous criminals lodged within the jail.
According to sources, the CCB sleuths have gotten greater than 40 deadly weapons together with swords, machete, daggers, knives, and scissors from the inmates within the jail.
The officers additionally seized ganja, and ganja smoking pipes (Chillums), cellular phones and pen drives from the possession of infamous criminals.
According to an official who was a part of the raid, the inmates who have been having weapons, contraband and cellular phones can be questioned intimately.
“We will be taking up cases against the inmates for having weapons and drugs. Since they are already in prison they will be questioned in the jail itself and cases under Arms Act, NDPS Act will be registered against respective prisoners,” the officer informed reporters.
He added that they have been additionally verifying the position of the jail authorities for permitting so many rowdies to have weapons, medication, and cellular phones.
“These lethal sharp weapons were found with notorious rowdies, as of now they have confessed that they had weapons for their self-defence from other rowdies,” a senior officer stated.
The seized cellular phones, pen drives can be despatched to forensic science laboratories (FSL) for additional evaluation and to get details about the associates of the rowdies and their actions, the officer added.
The CCB sleuths stated that the search continues to be on within the central jail.
Bangaluru Central Jail, which is also called Parappana Agrahara Central Prison, is the most important jail in Karnataka, which might formally accommodate 2200 inmates, nevertheless, it’s all the time occupied above its official sanctioned capability. At current there are round 2,700 inmates, which got here down from the common 4,500 inmates previous to the outbreak of the pandemic in March final 12 months.
