Parliament Parliament security breach: Intruders carried 'missing PM' pamphlets, cops say
New Delhi/IBNS: The two men responsible for the Parliament security breach carried pamphlets they wanted to give Prime Minister Narendra Modi, police told a Delhi court this evening.
The intruders, including the two from outside Parliament, had a pamphlet calling the PM a "missing person" and offering a cash reward from a Swiss bank for relevant information, the cops claimed.
Sagar Sharma and D Manoranjan, who were caught inside the Lok Sabha, and Neelam Devi and Amol Shinde, arrested outside Parliament, have to be questioned in detail, the Delhi Police said.
Five people were arrested on Wednesday itself for the security breach in the afternoon in which two men got into the Lok Sabha and let off thick yellow smoke from canisters they smuggled in.
A total of six people were involved in the planning and execution of the major security breach in Parliament on Wednesday.
The four intruders - Sagar Sharma, D Manoranjan, Neelam Devi, and Amol Shinde - were arrested minutes after the smoke scare, and produced before a Delhi court earlier in the day.
They have been sent to a seven-day police custody.
A fifth person, Vicky Sharma, at whose Gurugram home the others met was arrested along and his wife. They were released late this evening.
Lalit Jha, a key conspirator and the alleged mastermind, is on the run.
According to the police, Jha, who could not get a visitor's pass, had stayed outside and filmed the 'protest' by Neelam and Amol Shinde.
The police sought custody for 15 days, arguing they needed time to take the four to Mumbai (where the smoke canisters were bought) and Lucknow (where shoes used to smuggle the canisters were bought), as well as uncover possible "terrorist" angles.
The police also suggested more people may have been involved in the smoke attack "as a common man cannot work with such planning".
The police also told the court the motives of those involved are, so far, unclear. The four accused reportedly told police they wanted to highlight issues like joblessness and the ethnic violence in Manipur, and that they wanted to bring these to MPs' attention.
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