In a shocking incident, a mobile phone and a packet of ganja or cannabis were seized from two convicted criminals at the Nagpur central jail in Maharashtra, the police said on Saturday, the PTI reported.

The contraband was thrown over the jail wall by an unidentified person from the nearby premises of the irrigation department on Friday afternoon and picked up by Sanu Khan alias Mustafa Jamil Khan Pathan and Amit Somkuwar, an official told the PTI.