TARN TARAN: "Qadian nu shaunk mobila da (mobile phones fascinate prisoners)."
Such a fascination came to fore again on Wednesday after police conducted a raid in Goindwal Sahib jail in Punjab's Tarn Taran district and recovered 17 mobile phones.
The recovery has exposed that prisoners in the Goindwal Sahib jail have been indulging in communication with the outside world using mobile phones, including smartphones.
In addition to that, they have been utilising wireless earpods to stay connected beyond the confines of their prison cells.
In all, 17 mobile phones, including six smartphones, 5 SIMS, six mobile chargers, six earphones and one wireless earpod, six data cables, a small quantity of opium and ganja besides many sharp-edged weapons and wires were seized during the raids conducted at Central Jail, Goindwal Sahib and Sub Jail, Patti on Wednesday.
Tarn Taran senior superintendent of police Gurmeet Singh Chohan said that the raid was carried out jointly by Tarn Taran police and the jail department in Central Jail Goindwal Sahib and sub-Jail Patti.
A total of 230 police personnel, led by six gazetted officers of the district police and five gazetted officers of the jail department, carried out the search operation.
Chohan said that the contraband was recovered from Goindwal Sahib Sahib jail.