CCB Police raid Bengaluru central prison, seizes marijuana packets,dozens of pipes

Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar

The CCB officials raided central prison of Parappana Agarahara recovered few packets of marijuana and a dozen of pipes used to smoke the drugs.

Sandeep Patil Joint CP Crime,said,Based on a tip off that the gangs and rowdies are continuing to operate from inside the prison.

On the instructions of commissioner of police, Kamal Pant,several teams of police comprising of two DCPS,with 15 Inspectors were formed under the supervision of Senior officers and the team raided the prison at the early hours and along with the prison staff carried extensive search for the contrabands.

As we received the tip off that the gangsters and rowdies are operating their gangs from inside and giving instructions and communicating regularly from the mobile phones.

But surprisingly,the officials have not found any mobile phones so far.

The CCB officials later filed a complaint with the Jurisdictional Parappana Agrahara about the seizure of drugs from the barracks of undertrials and convicts seeking detailed investigations to ascertain the source of drugs in Barack.

In July this year, the CCB officials raided the prison and recovered knives and daggers, marijuana, mobile phones and SIM cards .