Click to play videoNew Delhi: A riotous Sunday morning at Kotbalwal jail in Jammu as prisoners clash with police.
Police used tear gas to control protests by detainees at the Kotbalwal jail in Jammu on Sunday. The clash reportedly took place when police started looking for SIM cards on the inmates of the jail.
Jammu Police IG, SP Vaid said, “There were reports of incriminating material inside the jail. We conducted search. Minimum use of force was resorted. We want to search each and every barrack to recover all these things.”
The inmates reacted by pelting stones and prisoners then threw the boiling water and stones at the security personnel from the rooftops.
The police said that no one was hurt and that efforts were being made to bring the situation under control.
The prisoners were unhappy over the search for SIM cards being carried out by the police.
The CID wing of J&K police had busted a militant communication network in this jail recently and recovered two SIM cards and mobile phones from a criminal and a Pakistani militant in November.
The Pakistani prisoners, also shouted slogans against the Jail superintendent and demanded a halt to the searches and stayed outside their barracks overnight.
As per intelligence reports, there are still 12 to 13 SIM cards and mobiles with the militants.
"CID is also investigating as to how a huge pile of stones, water, iron rods have reached the militants despite tight security," police said.
With agency inputs
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