Authorities of the Ambala central jail have recovered a portable and two styles of drugs from its premises during a checking, police said on Wednesday.
As per the police, jail officials during a routine round on Tuesday found an inmate checking a bit of packet. On seeing the officials, the inmate scaled a wall to leap into another block.
“The packet contained a itinerant together with two packets of medicine. it absolutely was handed over to the police,” assistant superintendent of jail Dhajja Ram said.
The police said that the packets contained 53.1 gram of sulpha and 17 gram opium.
A case under the provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and therefore the Prisons Act has been registered against the inmate, who is yet to be identified, at the Baldev Nagar station.
The matter is under investigation, the police added.
