The Director General, Prisons and Correctional Services, Karnataka conducted an inquiry after videos surfaced on Saturday showing high-risk inmates, including an ISIS recruiter and a convicted rapist-killer, using mobile phones and receiving what appeared to be VIP treatment inside Bengaluru’s Parappana Agrahara Central Jail.

"It is being investigated how these prisoners obtained mobile phones, who brought the phones inside the prison, who handed them to the inmates, when the footage was recorded, who circulated it to the media, and so on," Additional Inspector General of Prisons, P.V. Anand Reddy, said in a statement.

Among those spotted is Umesh Reddy, a well-known convicted serial rapist, allegedly seen operating a phone. Another video shows a suspected ISIS recruiter, fuelling fear

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