Mobile phone found in Tejpal's cell during prison raid

February 23, 2014 20:46

CNN-IBN reports: Prison authorities on Sunday seized a mobile phone during a surprise inspection of the cell in which Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal is lodged at the Sada sub-jail in Goa's Vasco city.

The mobile phone was among nine phones seized by Sub-divisional Magistrate Gaurish Shankhwalkar during the surprise raid.

Headphones, MP3 players, cigarettes and tobacco packets were also seized from other cells.

An official said a mobile phone was found from cell no.14 where Tejpal and four other inmates are lodged.

Tejpal, however, told the officers that the phone does not belong to him.

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