Jail warden at Central Prison Parappana Agrahara held for supplying drugs to undertrial prisoners, convicts

Bengaluru: A jail warden at the Central Prison, Parappana Agrahara, has been arrested for supplying illicit drugs to undertrial prisoners and convicts.

Kallappa, who worked the night shift, was allegedly providing tobacco products and narcotics to inmates. About 100 grams of hashish oil was seized from him, the police said.

"We are investigating as to who supplied him the drugs and to which barracks he was delivering it," a police officer said.

Kallappa joined the prison department in 2018 under the ex-servicemen quota. For the past few months, he had been working as a warden.

On September 7 evening, when he reported for duty, CISF personnel at the entry gate checked him and found tobacco products and hashish oil in his pockets, police sources said.

Recently, the CCB raided the prison and found contraband across different barracks, including tobacco products (Chaini, Swagat Gold), ganja-smoking pipes, knives, trimmers, scissors, mobile chargers, matchboxes, lighters, playing cards, notebooks used for gambling scores, electric coils for heating water, weapons and iron rods.