Drugs, mobiles and cash found in Punjab jails during raids

Chandigarh: A large haul of mobile phones, narcotics and cash was seized by police during simultaneous raids carried out in jails across Punjab on Sunday.
Narcotics like opium and other tablets, scores of mobile phones along with SIM cards, and syringes used for injecting drugs were seized during the raids, a police spokesperson said.
Simultaneous search operations were conducted in jails in Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, Gurdaspur, Tarn Taran, Fazilka, Moga, Faridkot, Mansa, Muktsar, Patiala, Sangrur, Ropar, Nabha and Sub jail in Barnala.
The largest haul was in Amritsar, with police seizing 21 mobile phones including four androids, 11 charging leads, three head phones, eight SIM cards and two memory cards. Besides that, 310 used syringes, silver foil paper, bundles of bidis, nearly 30 tablets used as intoxicants, along with an amount of Rs 14,340 cash were also recovered. (PTI)