Two held for bid to sneak ganja, mobile into jail

TNN | Apr 16, 2020, 04:01 IST

Varanasi: Two men were arrested for attempting to provide 600 grams of ganja and two mobile phones to an inmate of district jail compound on Wednesday.
Cantt inspector Ashwini Chaturvedi said, “After receiving tip-off about the arrival of a few miscreants, a juoint team of Cantt and Lalpur-Pandeypur police stations and crime branch cordoned off the area behind the district jail compound on Wednesday morning.
As two men on a motorcycle reached close to the boundary wall of the jail and attempted to throw a bag inside its premises, the police caught hold of them. 600 grams of ganja and two mobile phones were recovered from the bag.
The arrested men were identified as Govind Shukla and Mohd Shahid of Badagaon area.
During initial interrogation, they confessed that they had come to provide the ganja and mobile phones to one Abhishek Mishra, who is accused of killing a student leader Vivek of Azamgarh in 2019, and is lodged in the district jail.