KANNUR: Mobile phones and ganja were seized in a follow-up raid to the lightning raid at Kannur Central Jail.

Prisons DGP Rishiraj Singh led the raids on Kannur Central Jail yesterday. The secret raid started around 4 am went on till 7.30 am. They found luxuries including sachets of ganja, mobile phones and extra batteries, money hidden under coats, iron rods, and SIM cards. Range IG Ashok Yadav and Kannur SP Pratheesh Kumar accompanied Rishiraj Singh.

In a similar raid At Viyyur, Thrissur city police commissioner Yatish Chandra led the raid. They seized two smartphones from Mohammed Shafi, undergoing life imprisonment for killing T.P. Chandrasekharan.