In yet another shocking indictment of the Congress government’s crumbling law and order in Karnataka, a viral video from Bengaluru’s Parappana Agrahara Central Prison has exposed how dreaded criminals — including an ISIS operative and a convicted serial rapist — enjoy VIP treatment behind bars.
The footage shows inmates casually using mobile phones, sipping tea, and chatting freely — as if in a café, not a high-security prison. Among them are Zuhaib Hameed Shakeel Manna, an alleged ISIS recruiter who radicalised youth to join terror modules in Syria, and Umesh Reddy, a convicted serial rapist and murderer whose death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
That such hardened criminals could access mobile phones inside a top-security prison is not just a breach — it’s a collapse of governance. It raises an uncomfortable question: under the Congress rule, have Karnataka’s prisons turned into safe havens for terrorists and sexual predators?
The state home department has now ordered a probe, but the damage is done. The video has once again laid bare how under the Congress regime, even convicts linked to terrorism and brutal crimes enjoy impunity, while the system looks the other way.
Source: Hindustan Times
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