By IANS
Raipur : Two jail officials have been suspended for security lapses after a mobile set was recovered from a top jailed Maoist leader in Chhattisgarh, a police official said Friday.
“A warden and a head warden of Bilaspur central jail have been suspended with immediate effect after a mobile phone was recovered from Narayan Sanyal,” Deputy Inspector General for Jails, P.D. Verma told IANS.
Sanyal, the lone surviving contemporary of Charu Majumdar who began the violent Maoist movement at Naxalbari in West Bengal in 1967, was arrested in January 2006.
The jail staff recovered a mobile phone without a SIM card from the leader Wednesday.
Sanyal, 70, is facing dozens of terror charges, including masterminding an attack on former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu in October 2003 and abetting the escape of prisoners from Bihar’s Jehanabad jail in November 2005.
“A high-level probe is underway on how the Maoist leader got the mobile set inside a high security central jail. We have also seized a charger Thursday but the SIM card is yet to be recovered,” Verma said.
“We believe SIM card was taken out by Sanyal when the staff spotted the set in his hand.”
The jail authorities had performed x-ray test of the Maoist leader soon after the recovery of the mobile set, amid speculation that he had swallowed the SIM card, but the results were negative.