The State Government on Thursday tabled the Karnataka Prisons (Amendment) Bill, 2022, in the Legislative Assembly to prohibit use of cell phones or any other instrument of communication on the prison premises.
Any outsider or prison officer indulging in supplying prohibited materials, including cell phones, or any other instrument of communication to prisoners on the prison premises, would be liable to imprisonment for three years, extendable up to five years and fine, the Bill said.
Members cutting across party-lines have been demanding ban on using mobile phones and other electronic gadgets by prisoners inside jails.
