Viral video leads to midnight raid at Godhra sub-jail, 9 phones seized – The Indian Express

The police recovered 9 cell phones from two barracks of the sub-jail, of which, three have been discovered within the possession of the 4 inmates seen within the viral video. A crew of 30 officers from varied departments of the district police, together with the Native Crime Department (LCB) and Particular Operations Group (SOG), have initiated a probe.

The viral video, allegedly filmed contained in the sub-jail, purportedly exhibits two inmates lodged in Barrack Quantity 6 posing for the digital camera in a collection of images, superimposed with a dialogue from a Bollywood gangster flick primarily based on the lifetime of a D-company don, Maya Dolas.

Superintendent of Police, Panchmahal, Himanshu Solanki advised The Indian Specific that the police had initiated the raid after the video emerged someday on Wednesday. “The background within the video was that of the sub-jail. Subsequently, on figuring out one of many individuals within the video, totally different items of the district police performed a raid on Thursday night time,” Solanki mentioned.

Led by inspectors of LCB and SOG, the crew started the raid shortly earlier than midnight and recognized one of many two folks seen within the video as Ishaq Badam, an inmate of Barrack 6, who’s an undertrial in a case beneath Indian Penal Code Part 186 which offers punishment for voluntarily obstructing any public servant in discharge of his public capabilities. Within the video, Badam is purportedly seen sporting a black shirt and a purple scarf standing alongside one other inmate, sporting a blue t-shirt, who has been recognized as Mohsin Suleman Mindhi. In keeping with the LCB, Mindhi was despatched to judicial custody as an undertrial in a theft case on April 1 this 12 months.

Police Inspector N I Desai of LCB advised The Indian Specific that a number of inmates had already destroyed or discarded their telephones when the raid started. “It’s common observe that as phrase spreads within the jail concerning the raid, these in possession of prohibited objects attempt to destroy it. We recovered three telephones from Barrack quantity 6, of which one was with Badam and he had tried to destroy it. The opposite two telephones have been present in possession of the opposite inmates seen within the video,” Desai mentioned.

“We’ve got recognized another inmate seen within the background as Khalid… We additionally recovered six telephones from Barrack 4, 5 of which have been thrown into the dustbin and one was discarded in the bathroom. One of many telephones belonged to an undertrial of a POCSO case of 2018, named Meet Bhatt. We even have to determine who put out the video on social media and on which platform… Because the cellphone had been destroyed, it would take a while to research,” he added.

Desai mentioned that the police are ascertaining the main points of the opposite inmates seen within the video in addition to their felony historical past because the probe is at present underway.