BENGALURU: For the second time, videos showing ‘VIP treatment’ inside the Parappana Agrahara Central jail have gone viral. Jail authorities are trying to pass them off as old footage, but multiple pieces of evidence suggest the clips are actually only two to three months old.

The gold smuggler Ranya Rao’s close associate Tarun Raj was sent to jail in April of this year. The recently released videos show that inmates now have access to TV, Android mobiles, cooking ingredients, alcohol, vegetables and snacks—basically everything found outside.

In one of the clips, a Bangalore Press calendar is visible in Tarun’s cell; the person filming deliberately pans to it two or three times to show it as a recent video. The calendar shows the month of November 2025, which means the video could have be

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