BENGALURU: After videos of jail inmates enjoying luxurious lives were widely circulated, it is being said that about 300 mobile phones are being rented out inside the Parappana Agrahara Central Jail. .

Using a phone costs Rs 500 for half an hour and Rs 1,000 for an hour. It is alleged that the racket is being run using Bangladeshi sentenced prisoners. High‑level sources say that the jail officials themselves are involved in the scheme for money.

Some inmates are using mobiles illegally, but not everyone has a phone. There are many ‘VVIP’ prisoners in the jail, and for them the rates are fixed — 5minutes, 15 minutes, half an hour, or more than an hour — of phone talk.

The Bangladeshi sentenced prisoners get the phones after 7.30 am. They, in turn, give out the mobiles to those who need t

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