Bengaluru: Terror suspect on call with handlers? phone found in jail

BENGALURU: An abandoned mobile phone was found in the corridor of the high-security block in the Parappana Agrahara central prison on Saturday night during a routine check by the prisons staff.

As the phone was found near the room in which a terror suspect is lodged, it is suspected that he was using the phone, but no official sources confirmed it.

Prison department officials said that the phone was found around 10 pm on Saturday near the barrack of terror suspect Mohammed Fahad alias Koya.

“There was no SIM card in the phone and we do not know who was using it. A complaint was lodged with the Parappana Agrahara police,” an official said.

Fahad, a Pakistan national, is a suspected member of Al-badr terror outfit and was arrested in Mysuru in 2006.

A few years ago, intelligence agencies had found that he and his associate Mohammad Ali Hussein were using mobile phones inside the prison to keep in touch with their associates in Pakistan.

The duo had then been shifted to Gulbarga central jail.