Days after some accused in a sensational murder case lodged in the district jail here made Facebook postings, using sophisticated mobiles, yet another base model cellphone was recovered from the jail, police said.
Police said the mobile was unearthed from near the garden inside the jail complex by the jail staff, a top police official told PTI.
On December seven a mobile phone without battery and SIM card was recovered from a pipe connecting the septic tank in the jail. The mobile was recovered during repairs to a pipe in a cell block.
Earlier raids in the jail after the controversy erupted on December two had only led to recovery of some mobile chargers and earphones.
In a serious violation of prison rules, some of the accused in the Chandrasekharan murder case had made Facebook postings using their mobile phones.
The matter was exposed through a sting operation by a Malayalam TV channel, which also beamed photographs purportedly posted on Facebook by some of the key accused in the case after they were lodged in the prison as undertrials.
Chandrasekharan, who floated his own outfit RMP after quitting CPI(M), was hacked to death in May 2012 near his native village Onchiyam. Many of the accused in the case are local CPI(M) workers, apart from goons hired to execute the crime.
Home Minister Thiruvanchur Radhakrishnan had admitted it was a breach of prison rules and constituted a three-member committee to probe the incident.
The matter also saw Kerala DGP (Prisons) Alexander Jacob removed from his post for his controversial remarks in the case.
Jacob had said the timing of the expose of prison rule violations was "suspect" and appeared to have been made with the intention of prejudicing the judgement, expected to be delivered by the court this month end.
His justification for the meeting of one of the accused, a local CPI(M) worker, with his wife and MLA K K Lathika while being taken to hospital a few weeks back also found serious fault with the government and the ruling party.
