RAJOURI/JAMMU, Sept 11: Security concerns have resurfaced after three mobile phones were recovered during a surprise search inside the high-security district jail of Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Thursday.
Acting on specific inputs, joint teams conducted searches under the supervision of the jail administration. The seized devices, which did not contain SIM cards, have been sent to a forensic laboratory for analysis.
Police have lodged an FIR and launched an investigation to determine how the devices entered the jail despite a three-tier security system.
Sources said the prison premises are equipped with jammers and claimed to be digitally secure with no mobile network access. However, the recovery of phones indicates a possible compromise in the system.
This incident adds to a string of similar recoveries in J&K prisons. On July 24, a smartphone was seized from an undertrial prisoner at Kotbalwal Central Jail in Jammu. Earlier, in January last year, a smartphone was recovered from a jailed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist. In July 2021, 12 phones, SIM cards, and other electronic gadgets were confiscated from inmates in the same prison.