Eight cell phones unearthed in jail

Kozhikode: The Kozhikode district jail officials and the police team probing the mobile phone episode recovered eight mobile phone handsets on Tuesday. One handset  was found buried in the ground near the common  bathroom  in the morning while seven were found in the manhole adjoining  two septic tanks in the evening.

Police sources said that two mobiles  are semi-smart phones,  X2 and C2 models, with facilities to access internet. All  phones are Nokia models.    

Kozhikode Police Commissioner G. Sparjankumar said that the handsets will be examined with the help of the cyber cell to ascertain the details of the calls made and find out the persons who used them. 

The probe team also found two SIM cards and four memory cards along with the handsets. The phones needed to be cleaned before verifying the details, said an official in the probe team.

The seven handsets were recovered by a team headed by Kasaba Circle Inspector N. Biswas around 4 p.m. The handset found buried in the ground had an MTS SIM card. It was handed over to the probe team.

The search for the mobile phones was intensified after  the five key accused in the TPC murder case were found to have free access to mobile phones as well as social media networks such as Facebook.  The probe team  said that it was  not possible to ascertain at the moment whether the accused used the recovered handsets.