The Jammu and Kashmir police on Sunday seized 14 mobile phones from a sub-jail in Baramulla, where several separatist leaders, including Muslim League chairman Masarat Alam, are lodged.
A police officer said the phones were found during a search by the police and the jail officials in the morning. “The operation followed information that some incriminating materials, including unauthorised mobile phones, were being used on the jail premises,” the officer said.
The police said they seized “14 mobile phones and incriminating materials” from the inmates.
Police sources said the barrack of Alam was also searched. Alam has been in the jail since 2015, after a rally in which Pakistani flags were unfurled.
Sources said two phones were recovered from there. But there was no official confirmation.
A first information report has been filed. “An investigation is under way to find out how these articles, not authorised by the jail manual, have made their way into the jail,” the police officer said.
Sources said the police were also going through Alam’s call details.
In December 2016 and on January 18 this year, courts granted Alam bail. But he was detained soon.
