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     Gootle Junior Artist Username: Gootle Post Number: 83 Registered: 07-2008 Posted From: 158.140.1.25 Rating: N/A |
Many terror plots, like the recent one to blow up Chennai's Gemini flyover, are hatched inside prisons, and the medium has been mobile phones. It's very shocking to know that across the country, less than a dozen prisons have jammers and even those that do, don't really work. So even as most police departments cannot stop the calls, they are intercepting them. Like in Chennai, where a prisoner's mobile conversations helped the Tamil Nadu Intelligence Wing foil a terror plot. Ali Abdullah, a hard core Jihadi trained in Pakistan, is housed in the High Security Block of Chennai's Puzhal Prison. But he was masterminding terror plots in the city using two mobile phone connections. It was a blessing in disguise for the Tamil Nadu Intelligence Wing that managed to intercept the conversations and arrested Abdullah's henchman Gafoor in Tirunelveli on Sunday. When Abdullah's cell was raided, he tried to chew the SIM cards. But call details have been traced. "Actually, through his conversations, the police managed to foil a terror plot," said R Nataraj, ADGP, Prisons, TN. Over the past few months, across nine prisons in Tamil Nadu, 104 mobile phones and 40 SIM cards have been seized. Not a single prison in the state has jammers. Elsewhere in the country, sources have told NDTV that only about 10 prisons have jammers installed and most of them don't work. This is because of either poor maintenance or sabotage by prisoners with the connivance of jail staff. In Tamil Nadu, all the prisons have at least 200 visitors everyday. Only three Prisons have X Ray Scanners. No wonder so many SIM cards are smuggled inside. "They are often punctured in apples or bananas. When prisoners go to court to the hospital, they get hold of them. They are also hidden in private parts and in one case, we had to take the prisoner to the hospital to take it out. I agree that there is connivance at some level as well. Another problem is that prisons are very large and require many jammers. Puzhal for instance is 212 acres and the Trichy prison 268 acres," R Nataraj added. The terror attacks in Bangalore and Ahmedabad have now put the process of installing jammers in our prisons on the fast track. |
