District administrations across the State conducted raids of jails in order to prevent use of illegal substances by the inmates. According to the prison department nothing serious was found from anywhere in the state.
The Ranchi district administration team led by sub-divisional officer Garima Singh and the city SP Aman Kumar started the raids in the Birsa Munda central jail at around 4 am in the morning. The district administration however did not find any objectionable material expect tobacco.
The raids were carried out in all barring two districts in the state, informed officials.
“It is due to the efforts of the jail administration that use of illegal substances has stopped on the jail premises,” said the additional inspector general of prison Deepak Vidyarthi.
He added that in the recent years the jail administration has been conducting inspection regularly-almost daily- to stop entry of illegal substances. He added that frisking of people and installation of CCTV cameras have also prohibited entry of prohibited substances inside the campuses.
Our Jamshedpur correspondent said the city police on Friday conducted a massive raid at Ghaghidih Central Jail on the outskirts of the city. The police though didn’t recover anything objectionable by conducting the surprise raid. The raid was led by City SP Prabhat Kumar.
Today new Hazaribagh Sadar SDO Megha Bhardwaj also conducted a raid at
Jai Prakash Narayan Central Jail but nothing objectionable was recovered.
She said the raid was conducted on instruction of higher officials.
Meanwhile, mobile phones, knives, playing cards and other prohibited meterials were found in Giridih jail during raids. A sudden sweep of Giridih prisons led the authorities to make a huge haul of mobile phones, narcotics, liquor, cigarette packs, lighters, playing cards (8 ) and knives from prisoners at Giridih central Jail.