Archive · 8 Sep 2026
Ten Phones Seized From Nine Undertrials at Mangaluru Prison
Police searched a prison in Mangaluru after receiving information that some inmates were using forbidden mobile phones.
They found 10 smartphones in A-Block.
The phones were linked to nine undertrials, who are prisoners awaiting the completion of their cases.
Some of these people are accused in a murder case.
Others are accused of drug peddling.
One is accused in a case under the Karnataka Control of Organised Crime Act.
Police registered a case under prison and criminal laws.
They are now trying to learn who brought the phones into the prison and how they were used.
Police seized 10 smartphones during a surprise search at Mangaluru District Prison.
The phones were recovered from nine undertrials housed in A-Block.
The search followed information that prisoners were using prohibited mobile phones.
Four undertrials face charges in the murder of Arif near Thokkottu, while four face drug-peddling charges.
Barke police are investigating how the phones entered the prison and who supplied them.
- Who
- Barke police searched nine undertrials at Mangaluru District Prison; City Police Commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy confirmed the raid.
- What
- Police seized 10 smartphones allegedly used by the undertrials.
- When
- The report was dated September 8; the case was registered on Monday night according to one report.
- Where
- Mangaluru District Prison, specifically A-Block, in Mangaluru, Karnataka.
- Why
- Police acted on specific or credible information that undertrials were using prohibited mobile phones.
- Phones seized
- 10 smartphones
- Undertrials involved
- Nine
- Recovery location
- A-Block, Mangaluru District Prison
- Police station
- Barke police station
- Legal provisions
- Section 323 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Section 42 of the Karnataka Prisons Act
- Named undertrials
- Rifath Ali, Ibrahim Khalil, Ashfaq alias Juttu Ashfaq, Arshad, Dawood Parvez, Nazrath Ali, Shifan, Abdul Sadiq and Arfaz
- Investigation focus
- The use and supply of the phones, including how they entered the prison
