Four days after the deputy jail superintendent on the Ambala Central Jail was threatened by gangsters affiliated with the Lawrence Bishnoi gang who have been present in possession of a cell phone, the native police and jail administration carried out a particular test on Thursday and seized eight cellphones from inmates.

Other than the telephones, the group additionally recovered seven batteries and 6 SIM playing cards from the possession of 10 inmates, police mentioned on Friday.

A police spokesperson mentioned a group led by DSP (Cantt) Ram Kumar carried out the shock search operation from 3.30 pm to 7 pm following complaints of cell phone use by inmates.

Following the recoveries, a case below the Prisons Act was registered on the Baldev Nagar police station in opposition to the ten inmates. Station in-charge inspector Gaurav Punia, nevertheless, denied any prima facie hyperlinks of the inmates with any gang.

On Monday, police had booked 4 jail inmates affiliated with the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, together with Surya Pratap, alias Noni Rana, brother of gangster Virender Pratap, alias Kala Rana, for threatening Dr Rajiv Kumar, deputy superintendent of the central jail.

As per Kumar’s criticism, throughout a test contained in the jail, Surya was discovered utilizing a cell phone. On seeing the employees, he smashed the gadget on the ground.

Surya and the three different inmates went on to misbehave with the jail employees, and threatened him that their gang members would kill his members of the family, Kumar had alleged.

The probe on this case has been transferred to CIA-1 employees that can convey Surya and the opposite accused on manufacturing remand quickly.