NIA carries out raid inside jail in Amritsar 

National Investigation Agency carried out raid inside the premises of a jail in Punjab. The NIA raided 14 locations in North India on Saturday to prevent cross-border narcoterrorism. Apart from Jammu and Kashmir, teams also raided Amritsar, Ferozpur, and Tarn Taran, but during this time a team of NIA also reached Amritsar ‘Kendri Sudhar Ghar’. This is the first time that the NIA has turned to the jails of Punjab. 

According to the information received, the NIA team turned to the Kendri Sudhar Ghar. The search of the NIA team continued till 10 pm on Saturday. During this time no officer was allowed to pick up the phone inside the jail and neither was allowed to go outside. Some drug peddlers and gangsters were searched and questioned. The NIA team seized two mobiles from the Central Jail during the search operation. 

The NIA team estimates data can be obtained from these mobiles, that how terrorists have been contacted sitting in jails. This is the first time that the NIA team has reached inside the jail of Punjab. Till date, all the search operations conducted by NIA were limited to the houses of terrorists, gangsters, etc. The NIA had strong evidence that the network of getting arms and drugs from Pakistan was running from inside the jail. 

Talking about Amritsar Central Jail, in November only, out of 21 days, jail staff seized mobiles and banned items till 14 days. On 51 days, 105 mobiles were seized from inside the jail i.e. on an average of two mobiles daily.