A stir was caused by the discovery of 10 mobile phones during a search at the Central Jail on Tajpur Road. There hasn’t been a day when mobile recovery from jail cells and other areas hasn’t been ongoing. Assistant Superintendent Avatar Singh and Kuldeep Singh filed a complaint with Division No. 7 police station on the recovery of such a high number of mobile phones from 13 detainees during the checking. Police investigating officers Janak Raj and Gurdayal Singh mentioned the identified detainees as Mukhtiyar Singh son of Ranjit Singh, Sagar son of Harmesh Lal, Karanvir Singh son of Harpal Singh, Rohan Bhatti son of Krishna Lal, Dharamjeet Singh aka Dharmi son of Jaspal Singh, Sandeep Singh son of Gurbakhsh Singh, Shivendra Singh son of Bhupendra Singh, Jivtesh Sethi son of Iqbal Singh, Shiv Kumar son of Rajkumar, Kamaljeet Singh son of Sonu, Sumit Makkar son of Avatar Singh, Rahul Kumar son of Rajkumar, and Rahul Kumar son of Surinder Jha.
The continuous recovery of mobile phones in jails is raising questions about the prison administration’s functioning, as detainees and inmates manage their activities through these devices, often succeeding in their objectives. While the jail administration boasts about its systems, detainees easily bypass their intentions using mobile phones. If mobiles keep surfacing frequently in the jail, it indicates significant lapses in their search operations.
