Six cellphones, bottles of perfume, imported chocolates, 73 packets of ready-to-eat food and biscuits -- these were some of the items recovered from an SUV at the jail number 1 parking lot within the Tihar jail compound. On Wednesday evening, when a senior jail officer found the items inside a Toyota Innova and questioned the driver s identity, the man said his name was Vikrant Mahant. Questioning revealed he was an employee of Ajay and Sanjay Chandra, owner-directors of the real estate firm Unitech Ltd. The Chandra brothers have been in prison since April last year for allegedly duping over 500 home buyers in a proposed housing project in Gurgaon. Prison officers had another surprise waiting for them. When they went to inspect a room inside the jail where two brothers have been allowed by the Supreme Court to negotiate the sale of properties to pay off investors, they found more perfume bottles, chocolate boxes, one mini refrigerator, two cell phones, two cordless phones and two desktop computers. Tihar s director general Ajay Kashyap has ordered an inquiry to find out how the items came to be in the high-security jail. In October last year, the Supreme Court had allowed the Chandras to use video conferencing facilities from a makeshift office inside the prison to arrange a R750 crore deposit for grant of bail.
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