Fifty mobile phones, eleven SIM cards, eleven chargers and battery were recovered on Saturday and Sunday during a special search operation carried out by a team led by Deputy Superintendent of Bhondsi jail Dinesh Kumar from inmates of the district jail in Bhondsi.
Jail officials have taken the mobile phone into their custody. An FIR was registered against unknown persons under relevant Sections of Prisoner Act of the IPC at Bhondsi police station.
“Such things cannot be done without the assistance of ground-level jail staff,” an official with the jail authority, said.
“We will conduct such surprise checks in future on a routine basis to prevent criminals using mobile phones to operate their gangs, criminal activities and extortion racket,” he said.
As per the information Inspector General (IG), Jail Jagjeet Singh had formed special teams for the search operation.
“We have received a complaint from the jail authority. We are seeking call detail reports of all numbers which were recovered,”
Manish Sehgal, the spokesperson for Gurugram police, said.