Woman booked for getting suspicious items to jail
In a complaint, Sharanabasappa, superintendent of the jail, said the visitor, Ramsoona S, arrived at the jail to meet an undertrial prisoner, Mohammad Askar, at 12.45pm on Thursday.
She was carrying five packets of snacks to be given to Askar. The Karnataka State Industrial Security Force (KSISF) staff at the jail, while checking the snack packets thoroughly, found suspicious objects covered in aluminium foil inside them. The suspicious objects, in the form of powder, resembled MDMA.
Ramsoona told officers that Askar asked her to collect the packets from one Hussain from Hosangadi. Accordingly, she collected the packets and brought them to the jail.
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