Karnataka prisoner swallows mobile phone during raid of jail cell, goes under knife to take it out after 20 days
The Chinese model phone was so small that it passed through two narrow points in the murder convict's gastrointestinal tract but got stuck in the third, causing stomach pain.
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The incident happened at Shivamogga district prison in Karnataka. (Representational Photo)What will you do if you are a prisoner trying to hide a smuggled-in mobile phone during a raid by police officers? You will probably try to hide it under the bed or clothes. But Parashuram, 38, a murder convict serving life imprisonment in the Shivamogga district prison in Karnataka, had another idea: He simply swallowed it.
The incident happened around the first week of April. Soon enough, he started complaining of stomach pain but did not reveal the reason. The police took him to McGann Teaching District Hospital in Shivamogga and later shifted him to Victoria Hospital in Bengaluru.
The doctors at Victoria Hospital conducted an ultrasound scan and found a foreign object in Parashuram’s stomach. On April 25, they performed a surgery by cutting open his stomach to remove the foreign object.
It was only by the end of the 75-minute procedure that they figured out the reason for his stomach pain: A keypad mobile phone stuck in his pylorus, the cone-shaped constriction in the gastrointestinal tract that demarcates the end of the stomach and the beginning of the small intestine. The surgeons removed the phone and said Parashuram had carried it in his stomach for 20 days.
A doctor said the Chinese mobile phone was so small that it had passed through the throat and oesophagus. “We thought it could be excreted, and even Parashuram might have thought the same when he swallowed it. However, the device was stuck in the third narrow point, pylorus,” said the doctor.
After the surgery, Parashuram was kept under observation and sent back to the Shivamogga prison once the doctors confirmed that he was healthy.
Meanwhile, the Tunganagara police registered a case against Parashmura for smuggling the mobile phone into the jail. A police officer said, “The search operations inside jail to check mobile phones, drugs, and other substances are routine. However, most of them hide it in toilets or other places where no one checks. But Parashuram had swallowed it.”
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