Tiruchi City Police conducted checks on Tuesday, at the Special Camp accommodating foreign nationals facing criminal charges.
Split into teams, the police personnel, numbering a little over 300, commenced the operation at around 6 a.m. inside the Special Camp located close to the Tiruchi Central Prison. The checks were conducted on the instructions of the Commissioner of Police M. Sathya Priya and headed by the two Deputy Commissioners of Police, North and South.
The purpose was to ascertain if there were any electronic gadgets or narcotic substances inside the Special Camp, which comes under the administrative control of the Collector, said police sources. During the nearly two-hour checks, police teams recovered three mobile phones, a tablet, personal computer, a laptop and a modem.
The Special Camp houses over 125 foreign nationals, including more than 60 Sri Lankan Tamils. In August last year, similar checks were conducted. Over 150 mobile phones were seized from the inmates then.
The National Investigation Agency had arrested nine inmates of the camp in December last year, in a follow-up to a search operation it had conducted in July 2022, during which it had seized mobile phones and incriminating material that allegedly linked some of the inmates to an international drug cartel.
