India, Aug. 14 -- Former MP Prajwal Revanna, who is serving a life sentence in a rape case, has been shifted from the VIP cell to a general cell on Thursday after a mobile phone and a pen drive were found in his possession during a Central Crime Branch (CCB) raid. The devices were found to contain obscene videos, triggering an inquiry into how they reached his barrack.

The move means Revanna will now live alongside 20 other prisoners and share a single toilet. He has also been ordered to wear the prescribed prison uniform and report for work in the jail library, according to a senior home department official.

"His earlier accommodation was shared with undertrial prisoner Pratap Roy, arrested in a POCSO case. Roy was described as being l...