Eleven mobile phones and more than 40 packets of ganja or cannabis were seized from inmates of a Bihar jail during a raid early on Wednesday, police said.

The contraband were discovered in sub-divisi

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought a report from the Bihar government over the brutal murder of a doctor by jail inmates last week and steps being taken for the safety of doctors on duty in prison, officials said on Saturday.

In a shocking incident, a doctor was brutally beaten up by seven prisoners in a district jail here resulting in his death.