Raids at four jails across Kolhan, pen drives recovered from Ghaghidih

Jamshedpur, Oct 21: After a brief gap due to Covid-19, the administration conducted massive raids were conducted by district administrations at all the four jails across Kolhan in twin districts of Singhbhum and Seraikela-Kharsawan district early morning on Wednesday.

�The raids three at all the four jails, including the Ghaghidih Central Jail in Jamshedpur and Ghatsila Sub-jail in Dhalbhumgarh, the other two jails being Seraikela Divisional Jail in Seraikela and Chaibasa Divisional Jail in West Singhbhum, lasted for three hours. No objectionable materials as such from these jails despite intensive search.

�At the Ghaghidih Central Jail where the raid was conducted by over 100 policemen, in the presence of eight deputy superintendents of police for three hours from 5.30 am, only two pen-drive were recovered from the jail inmates.

�Revealing about the raid in the central jail, a police official said that the raid was led by Dhalbhum SDO, Nitesh Kumar Singh and assisted by the eight DSPs.

�” We have been getting complaints from sources that the inmates are indulging in objectionable activities. As there are eight blocks in the central jail, the district administration had engaged as many DSPs and supportive police staff for carrying out the raids.� Each of the 1,700 plus jail inmates, including undertrial prisoners were searched �during the prolonged operation.� At the end of the search, the raiding party could recover two pen-drives from the jail premises,” said the official.

Notably, the Ghaghidih Central Jail is spread over an area of 20 acres — set up on as large an area as Birsa Munda Central Jail in Hotwar, Ranchi.

Spread over 20 acres of land, the Ghaghidih Central Jail has a prisoners’ capacity of 1,447. 
There are a total of 11 trained jail guards, including three female ones. In addition, there are 65 hired security guards, including ex-servicemen and Home Guard personnel.

Sources went on to inform that concerned over the situation at the jail the administration has plans to step up vigilance and deploy additional security forces.