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Amritsar, February 13
There is no end to incidents of sneaking mobile phones and other prohibited material into the high-security Amritsar Central Jail.
Jail authorities on Friday confiscated five mobile phones and 250 habit-forming drugs and booked five prisoners, including two infamous drug peddlers (one of them is a cross-border drug smuggler and the other is former Army man Rahul Nayak of Haryana), in this connection.
The seizure alarmed the jail authorities as well as intelligence agencies.
Nayak along with two other persons was nabbed for allegedly smuggling drugs and weapons from across the Indo-Pak border using GPS-fitted drones in collusion with their Pakistani accomplices in January last year. The police had seized two Chinese-made drones, 12 drone batteries, some custom-made drone containers, an INSAS rifle magazine and two walkie talkie sets, besides suspected drug proceeds of Rs 6.22 lakh in cash from them.