In a bizarre incident, an inmate of Bhavnagar district jail was found to have hidden a small three-inch mobile phone inside his rectum. X-ray examinations and sonography done on him by the authorities confirmed the presence of the phone. Ravi Bariya, a rape accused had smugled the phone and its charger into the facility, an intelligence received by the jail squad informed.
Later when Bariya relieved himself the phone was retrieved wrapped in a plastic, however no sim card was present.
"The x-ray report showed a mobile handset in his rectum. Based on that report we will submit an application with Nilambaug police station to register an offence against this accused for smuggling electronic items into the jail. We will also inquire into how he got this mobile,” Jail superintendent LM Rathod said, reported TOI.
A case was registered regarding this by Vishnu Vaghela, a member of the clerical staff at Bhavnagar district jail. The FIR was filed with the Nilambaug Police station under BNS Section 223 and other sections of the Prisons Act.
In another incident in Gujarat, a ‘serial killer’ arrested for the rape and murder of a 19-year-old girl in Valsad district confessed to have committed a sixth murder in the state’s Dhaboi in June this year, the police said on Tuesday.
"He has now confessed to a sixth murder, of a visually-challenged youth," Superintendent of Police Karanraj Vaghela said. During interrogation, Rahul Jat, a native of Rohtak in Haryana admitted to having committed four murders in the past
