Bangalore: Sophisticated Jammers in Karnataka’s Top Jails
From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore
Bangalore, Sep 12: Sophisticated jammers would be installed in Karnataka’s top Central Jails like Bangalore, Mysore, Belgaum and Hubli.
Karnataka’s Prisons and Social Welfare Minister A Narayana Swamy told reporters in Bangalore on Wednesday that the Government decided to install sophisticated jammers in the wake of the success of the State police force in cracking terror modules and arresting a few terror suspects in Bangalore and Hubli recently.
The jammers would help in preventing the prisoners from using 3G enabled mobile phones and carrying out their activities by holding regular contacts with their associates and masterminds, the minister said.
Existing jammers had failed to block calls from 3G enabled operators, Narayanaswamy said.
The Central public sector undertaking, Electronic Corporation of India, Hyderabad, has been asked to install thejammers, he said adding that the estimated cost is Rs 7 crore.
The National Human Rights Commission has recommended for providing landline telephone facility to jail inmates and the Government would write to NHRC as well file an appeal in the High Court of Karnataka seeking the court’s permission not to provide landline telephone facility to prisons.
Despite installing jammers, some calls were made from Bangalore jail to Pakistan about a year ago, the Minister said pointing out that the security forces had to be constantly on the alert..
The Central Jail at Parappana Agrahara located on the outskirts of Bangalore has 120 supermax (high-security) cells to lodge terrorists and notorious underworld elements.
Another 80 supermax cells would be built at the Central Jail at Parappana Agrahara soon, he said.
A sum of Rs 2 crore would be spent for constructing 80 high security cells.
About 100 such high security cells in Bellary would soon be repaired,the minister said.
The City Crime Branch (CCB) police a few days ago arrested 14 persons, who had links with banned LeT and HuJI militant outfits.