VADODARA: Three convicted inmates of Vadodara Central Jail were booked for using mobile phones after five
cellphones
were found from the jail premises on Monday morning.
A search squad of the jail found the mobile phones hidden under earthen roof tiles in yard 11. According to officials, one mobile phone was found hidden under the tiles over a window in barrack 4, while four more cellphones were found from different roof tiles over different windows in barrack 3.
Along with the mobile phones, the squad also found two mobile phone chargers and a battery.
While it is still being investigated how these had been smuggled in or who owns the phones, officials’ probe revealed that the phones were being used Salim alias Salman Zarda, Sajid Hussain Arab and Tausif Miya Malek.
Zarda, a native of Godhra, has been in jail for his involvement in the 2002
Godhra
carnage. Arab is a native of Bharuch while Malek is from Kheda.
The trio has been booked at Raopura police station for disobeying police notification and violation of Prisons Act.
The cops are probing how they brought in the phones and who they had called up from these phones.
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