Overview
- Home Minister G. Parameshwara suspended two officers, transferred the chief superintendent, and appointed ADGP R. Hitendra to lead a one-month inquiry into prison functioning and security.
- A new oversight plan puts Bengaluru Central Prison under an IPS officer, with a command centre to relay statewide CCTV feeds within 15 days and a technical audit to follow.
- Security upgrades include doubling baggage scanners and mobile jammers, compulsory transfers for prison staff every five years, and fresh recruitment to address shortages.
- Parappana Agrahara police filed an FIR against four undertrials identified in a video of a dance party inside a barrack, while a CCB team tracks how contraband and phones entered the facility.
- CCB interrogated actor associate Dhanveer and seized his phone for forensic analysis as BJP leaders staged protests in Bengaluru and the NIA reportedly sought an explanation over a terror suspect seen using a phone.