Overview
- Clips that spread on Saturday showed inmates at Parappana Agrahara using phones, watching TV and streaming services, which triggered searches and an FIR.
- A search team recovered mobile phones hidden in a toilet pipeline and wrapped in used milk packets about three feet deep to dodge routine detectors.
- DGP Alok Kumar suspended warders Niranjan Kamath, Hanumanthappa Hadpad and Shivanand Karlabatti for dereliction of duty, and staff on supervisory duty face action.
- Investigators say early findings point to a planned smear by inmates resisting new jail reforms, and officials say the accused were identified and moved for disciplinary action.
- Authorities detected mobile network signal inside parts of the prison and warned Airtel to curb access, while reports differ on the number of phones seized as the probe continues at a jail with prior contraband cases.