Bangalore, May 22 (PTI) Karnataka Government has decided to install jammers in all jails to curb usage of mobile phones by criminals while in custody, state Home Minister R Ashoka said.
It has come to the knowledge of the government that criminals lodged in jails continue their illegal activities and planned to attack their rivals in jails with the help of mobile phones, he said after releasing telephone directory of reporters brought by Bangalore Reporters' Guild here.
"Even weapons were making their way into jails and there was a racket in which the associates of criminals hurl mobile handsets into jail premises from outside," Ashoka said.
To check this menace, the government is also planning to spread nets along the compound and conduct raids by city crime branch squads at regular intervals.