Malegaon terror accused got mobile in a book, say police

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The Yerawada police have sent a team to Mumbai, from where the courier arrived, to make investigations.

A senior official said the team in Mumbai will speak to a manager with a major media company in whose name the package was registered to be sent to Upadhyay through a courier.

“Although naming such a senior person in the ‘sender’ column looks like mischief, we don’t want to take any chances,” said senior inspector S A Patil of Yerawada police station.

Police said on Saturday morning, the jail officials received a package addressed to Major Ramesh Upadhyay. When it was opened for inspection, it was found that it contained a book. A closer inspection revealed that a cavity had been dug out in the pages of the Urdu book to create a cavity in which a mobile phone was placed in a cigarette packet. The cellphone is a Nokia device without a SIM card.

Upadhyay’s son Vishal, who met him on Monday, said “My father told me that he is clueless on this matter.”