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New Delhi: Five of the six people arrested in the Parliament security breach case on Wednesday told a court here that they were allegedly being tortured by Delhi Police to accept their association with opposition parties...
The submission was made before Additional Sessions Judge Hardeep Kaur, who extended the judicial custody of all the six accused till March 1...
Five of the accused Manoranjan D, Sagar Sharma, Lalit Jha, Amol Shinde and Mahesh Kumawat told the court that they were forced to sign about 70-odd blank papers...
Accused persons were tortured/given electric shocks to sign and confess (to) the commission of crime under the UAPA and their association with national political parties two accused persons were forced to write on the paper about their association with the political party/leader of opposition political party, the accused told the court in a joint petition...
In a major security breach on the anniversary of the 2001 Parliament terror attack, Sagar Sharma and Manoranjan D jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber from the public gallery during Zero Hour on December 13 last year, released yellow gas from canisters and shouted slogans before they were overpowered by some MPs...
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