Bengaluru, Nov. 14 -- National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday morning visited Bengaluru's Parappana Agrahara Central Prison to probe illegal access to mobile phones among inmates, officials said.

Their visit came amid ongoing concerns about how prisoners have managed to obtain mobile phones and other illegal privileges inside the facility.

According to officials in the know, the NIA's immediate focus was to determine how Juhad Hameed Shakeel Manna, a suspected ISIS operative, managed to access a mobile phone and to trace the people he had contacted from inside the jail. The team questioned Manna in a separate high-security block where inmates held under the National Security Act (NSA) are lodged, without interfering in other pri...