Bathinda, June 26 -- Jailed pastor Bajinder Singh was on Tuesday caught possessing a mobile phone and cash in his cell at Mansa district jail, officials said. A fresh case under the Prisons Act has been registered against him.

Singh has been undergoing life imprisonment for raping a woman in 2018. An official spokesperson said on Wednesday that the illegal possessions were detected during a jail inspection conducted by the assistant inspector general (AIG), prisons, Rajiv Kumar Arora.

"A mobile phone with a SIM card and Rs.2,500 in cash were recovered from a black-coloured bag of convict Bajinder Singh. A fresh case under the Prisons Act has been registered lodged at the sadar police station on the complaint of assistant jail superinten...