Bengaluru: 53-year-old first division assistant who worked with the middle prison Bengaluru was arrested by red hand while smuggling 10 LSD tablets and weed oil to prison on Wednesday.
Gangadhar G Hebbali, a resident of the Agrahara Parapula and shopkeeper in the recording room, has worked in prison for three years.
He was arrested under narcotics narcotics and psychotropic substances acting and sent to judicial detention.
Security personnel shocked Gangadhar near the main entrance on Wednesday morning when they saw something in his pocket.
“He has lemon and jasmine flowers in his pocket and told their security staff intended for the purpose of Puja.
The staff then watched his inner clothes have several ingredients.
Suddenly, Gangadhar became anxious and tried to walk away.
They caught him and arrested drugs,” said a person Official.
Polpana Agrahara Polda said Gangadhar tried to sell drugs to several underground detainees.
When asked who made medicine to him, he made an unclear statement about unknown people who promised to pay for Rs 5,000 to smuggle them inside.
However, the police said they did not buy this claim because the value of the drug confiscated was Rs 1.7 lakh.
For the past nine months, at least 12 FIR has been registered with criminals who try to smuggle material such as marijuana and cellphones to prison.
However, this was the first time the prison staff was arrested.
Previously, the minister at home had ordered an investigation of drug allegations and materials smuggled into prison for money.
Last month, two police officers were attached to the Koramangala police station and deployed to the security details of the ministerial head, arrested peddling almost 500 grams of marijuana with the help of the other two.