Girl held for supplying drugs to Correctional Home inmate

Kolkata: A girl has been arrested from the Dum Dum Correctional Home on Wednesday after she tried to supply drugs to an under trail prisoner. She was later released on bail after being produced at a Barrackpore court.

She has been identified as Susmita Malakar. According to the preliminary investigation, police suspect that the girl had an affair with the accused for a long time. She used to visit him at the correctional home and supply items frequently.

The accused Bhagirath Sarkar was arrested on the charges of murder that occurred under Nijpur police station in North 24-Parganas. According to sources, the girl, a resident of Duttapukur of the same district, visited the correctional home on Wednesday morning. She met the boy inside the jail.

She told the security personnel that she had some items to hand over. It was learnt that when security check was going on some of the jail staff found that the girl was carrying drugs weighing around 295 gm. The matter was immediately reported to the local police station.

Police reached the spot and arrested the girl. During police interrogation, the girl pleaded her innocence saying that she has been framed.

The lawyer of the girl has, however, claimed that she was going to meet her friend when someone had handed over a packet to her to pass it on to someone else. When she was about to hand over the item to the person, the correctional home security men intercepted her and recovered the drug from her possession. The lawyer argued in the court that the girl, a college student was not involved in any immoral activities. After hearing the plea the court granted her bail.