COLOMBO : The prison headquarters has taken steps to transfer the jailor, who helped Rishad Bathiudeen with a handphone, is to be transferred from the Magazine Prison to the Vavuniya Prison with immediate effect subject to disciplinary action.
The prison officials recovered a mobile phone in the possession of former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen on Wednesday when the officers noticed the latter was talking on the phone while they came near Bathiudeen’s cell.
The former minister threw the phone out of the cell window as he saw the jailors had noticed him using the phone.
However, the mobile phone was retrieved by the prison officers and handed it over to the intelligence unit for further investigations.
