Parliament security breach was ‘part of larger conspiracy’, say police. Terror charge invoked

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New Delhi: The security breach Wednesday during the ongoing winter session of Parliament when two men jumped from the visitors gallery onto the members benches in Lok Sabha and set off a smoke canister is a larger conspiracy that needs to be unearthed, investigators have told ThePrint...

According to sources, the conspiracy to execute the act was hatched months ago, with one of the accused, D. Manoranjan, having conducted a recce of Parliament to take stock of the security measures inside the building...

They had anticipated this, the source said.. While Manoranjan and Sharma jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber from the public gallery Wednesday afternoon and opened the canister that emitted a yellow-coloured gas, Azad and Shinde were nabbed outside Parliament, where they too opened a gas canister and raised slogans like tanashahi nahi chalegi (down with dictatorship)...

Police sources said the accused had collected at India Gate before heading to the Parliament building and had decided they would not throw the canister inside the premises but instead hold it in their hands to convey that it was harmless...

Sagar also hid some pamphlets inside his shoes which they were supposed to throw after opening the canister and releasing the coloured smoke, the sources said, adding that the pamphlets recovered said: Our PM is missing, whoever finds him will be given a reward from Swiss Bank...

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