Mobile, sim cards found inside cell of gangster Neeta Deol

PATIALA: Even as the investigating agencies have been trying to check smuggling of

mobile

phones inside the prisons by breaking the nexus between gangsters and jail staff, the recoveries of mobiles continue.

The authorities on Thursday recovered one mobile and two

sim cards

from the cell of gangster Kulpreet Singh alias

Neeta Deol

and one Mandeep Singh in the Nabha’s maximum security jail.

Neeta, one of the six jail escapees who fled after the sensational jailbreak in November, last year, had been lodged at the Kapurthala jail due to security reasons and had been shifted to the Nabha maximum security jail just 10 days ago. The small time frame in which he managed to get his hands on a mobile phone hints that the agencies had not yet succeeded to break the nexus between the gangsters and the prison staff.

While the jail superintendent Kulwant Singh could not be contacted despite repeated attempts, SHO

Kotwali Karnail Singh

said they have registered a case under the relevant sections of the law against Neeta Deol and Mandeep Singh.

Surprisingly, the organised crime control unit (OCCU) of the state police had recently arrested the assistant jail superintendent Rupa Singh and jail wing constable Karamjot Sharma of the maximum security jail for helping two students of Panjab University to supply drugs to gangster Neeta Deol inside the Nabha Jail.

The gangsters who had escaped from the maximum security jail last year in November had managed to pull off the jailbreak as they were continuously in contact with the jail attackers using internet telephony through mobile phone.

During the last one year, the authorities have recovered five mobile phones and six sim cards from inside the jail hinting that the jail walls continue to remain porous. While, the authorities have enhanced several security measures at the jail including deployment of a quick response team (QRT) of the state police outside premises and enhancing mobile signal jamming capabilities to curtail usage of 3G mobiles inside the jail, the department is yet to get its hands on the 4G jammers.