India, June 10 -- Four employees of Assam's Sribhumi district jail, including two assistant jailers and two warders were arrested for allegedly supplying mobile phones and narcotic substances to inmates, police said on Wednesday.

The arrested jail staff are identified as Rudra Deori, Subhasish Ghosh, Masid Ali Laskar and Biswajit Baruah.

Senior police officers said the arrests came over four months after a surprise raid at the district jail on February 2, during which 29 mobile phones, chargers, SIM cards and other prohibited items were recovered.

Sribhumi senior superintendent of police (SSP) Leena Doley led the raid after intelligence inputs suggested that some inmates were regularly communicating with people outside the prison and w...