Five arrested for providing mobile phone to Prajwal Revanna in prison

The Parappana Agrahara police have cracked the case of mobile phone usage by former MP Prajwal Revanna, who has been convicted of rape, and arrested five persons for allegedly getting the phone into the prison. This is apart from the arrest of Prajwal and his prisonmate, undertrial Prathap Rai, who were caught using the phone on August 11.

The Central Crime Branch (CCB), Bengaluru police, had conducted a surprise raid and seized the mobile phone, SIM card, phone charger, and a pendrive from Prajwal.

The Parappana Agrahara Police probe allegedly established that the mobile phone was smuggled into the prison through a warder and the SIM card through an undertrial prisoner. Based on technical evidence, tracing the mobile phone to its seller and buyers, the police arrested Naveen Kumar, Manjunath, Prakash, Siddiq, and Mohammed Touseef, for smuggling the phone into the prison, apart from Prajwal and Prathap, who shared a cell in the prison. The involvement of the prison staff in the case is still under probe.

Prathap reportedly claimed that Prajwal was already in possession of the mobile phone before he was moved to the cell and he used the phone later. 

Prison warders arrested

In two separate cases recently, the police arrested two warders at the Parappana Agrahara Central Prison complex for allegedly smuggling mobile phones into the prison; Chief warder Vijay Kumar was held for allegedly helping undertrial prisoner Bharath get a mobile phone, which was seized during a raid on August 20, and warder Srinivas Naik, for allegedly buying two mobile phones that were seized from undertrial prisoners during a raid in January 2026.