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Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, June 29

Two days after the violence in Central Jail here, the Ludhiana police along with the jail police today carried out a surprise check inside the prison, which led to the recovery of nine mobile phones.

The recovery has put a question mark over the functioning of the jail authorities as phones are freely available inside the jail. Even during the violence on Thursday, inmates had gone live on Facebook and also made the videos in which gunshot sounds could easily be heard. The issue is likely to bring certain jail officials in the dock as the SIT probing the violence will question accused. 

DCP Ashwani Kapur, who is heading the SIT, said, “We cannot rule out the connivance of some jail staffers. The SIT will bring 22 inmates booked for rioting and making videos for questioning, and if the SIT gets any evidence against any jail official for conniving with inmates in arranging mobile phones, action will be recommended against him.”

Hitting the headlines for wrong reasons

• April 28, 2019: STF nabs a woman smuggler with 440 gm of heroin. A drug racket was run by her son from the jail.
• June 22, 2018: Gangsters Harsimran Preet Singh, Simarjit Bablu, Gurpreet Singh Gopi, Amaninder Singh and Mandeep Singh thrash sacrilege accused Jagjit Singh. 
• June 11: Undertrial Parkash Singh Lallu strangled to death by inmate Deepak Dalia.
• April 10: Three prisoners kill undertrial Livtar Singh as the latter, who had drugs concealed in his private parts, refused to give it same to them.
• April 7: The Khanna police arrest notorious gangster Mandeep Singh Vicky of Gill village and recover 240 intoxicating capsules and a .32 bore pistol. Vicky used to take orders from his bosses lodged in Ludhiana jail.
• March 29: 4 inmates attack guard when he intervened in a scuffle between prisoners.
• March 20: Inmates clash over the use of washroom. Gangster Sukha Barewalia injured in the clash.
• May, 2017: Gurpreet Singh, a murder convict, clicked a selfie with two inmates and uploaded it on Facebook from his phone.

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