Doctors remove mobile phone from prisoner’s stomach after 20 days

A murder convict in Shivamogga prison, Karnataka, devised a risky scheme to evade detection: he swallowed a mobile phone, as reported by The Indian Express. Suffering from severe stomach pain, Parushuram, 38, was rushed to McGann Teaching District Hospital in Shivamogga and later transferred to Bengaluru’s Victoria Hospital for surgery. During an ultrasound, doctors discovered the electronic device in his stomach and opted for immediate surgery. After a critical 75-minute procedure, surgeons successfully removed a Chinese mobile phone from his pylorus, situated at the start of the small intestine. They revealed that Parushuram had harbored the phone internally for nearly 20 days, causing complications. Interestingly, he had not divulged this information to jail authorities until the phone was discovered during medical examinations. Subsequently, the police registered a case against him for smuggling contraband into the prison.