4 outsiders arrested during raid at Varanasi jail

Varanasi, Aug 12 (UNI) Four outsiders were arrested from the district jail premises here today for entering the jail on the basis of wrong names and addresses.

The matter came to light during a raid at the jail by a team led by District Magistrate Veena Kumari Meena and Senior Police Superintendent S B Shirodkar.

''During the verification of those, who had come to meet the the jail inmates, it was found that four persons had entered the jail by stating wrong names and addresses to the jail authorities,'' Police Superintendent (City) Arun Pandey said.

The four have been arrested, he said.

During the raid, Rs 1500 and Rs 100 in cash were found from two inmates of the jail in violation of jail rules. Besides this, nothing incriminating was found during the entire raid, which continued for three hours, Additional District Magistrate (City) Indra Vikram Singh said.

Terming the raid a routine affair, Mr Singh said the administration during the course of its visit to the jail found security arrangements to be satisfactory.

UNI