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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Apr 15: Police personnel raided the district prison in the city on Saturday April 14 and thoroughly searched the prison premises for prohibited goods. All the barracks and cells inside the prison were checked. The police found about 200 grams of ganja, a cellphone, two SIM cards, several cigarettes, bidis, tobacco, lighters, cutters, iron road etc inside the prison.

A contingent of 30 police personnel including officers and women constables conducted the search operation. Deputy commissioners of police, Uma Prashanth, and Hanumantharaya, led the operation. Further investigation has been handed over to Barke police station.

In the past too, this prison had been raided a few times by the police after reports about use of prohibited items inside the prison appeared. Since the last some months, no such surprise checks had been undertaken as the police were busy with summoning rowdies and people with criminal antecedents to police stations, issuing warnings to them, and getting bonds executed by them, in the light of the forthcoming election.

Several measures have been undertaken at the outer compound of the jail to avoid exchange of things from outside. The fact that a number of items were found inside the prison again go to denote that the measures undertaken have not been affective enough.