The Delhi Police has detained for questioning two more people in connection with the Parliament security breach case.
One of them is a Karnataka-based techie, a close friend of accused Manoranjan D. The other hails from Uttar Pradesh, police sources said. A team of the Special Cell questioned the duo, who are suspected to be a part of the now-deleted Facebook page 'Bhagat Singh Fan Club'.
Sai Krishna Jagali, a techie and son of a retired deputy superintendent of police, was picked up from his house at Vidyagiri in the district headquarters town of Bagalkote on Wednesday night by a team of Delhi Police. He was interrogated at the Navanagara police station in Bagalkot before he was taken to Delhi for further probe.
He studied with Manoranjan at BIT engineering college in Bengaluru and roommates in the college hostel with him between 2008 and 2009. Jagali joined a software company in Delhi in 2012 but kept in touch with Manoranjan. The police detained him after his name was found in Manoranjan's personal diary.
#WATCH | Police have detained a man from Karnataka's Bagalkote, who was accused D. Manoranjan's roommate during their engineering college days, in connection with the Parliament security breach case pic.twitter.com/ZSZj02C9vK
— ANI (@ANI) December 21, 2023
Sai Krishna's sister Spanda told reporters that a Delhi Police team took her brother with them while asserting that he had done "nothing wrong". "It is true that the Delhi Police came. My brother was interrogated. We have fully cooperated with the inquiry," she said, adding that both Manoranjan and Saikrishna were roommates.
Meanwhile, the police custody of the other four accused -- Neelam Devi, Amol Shinde, Manoranjan D and Sagar Sharma -- will end on Thursday. They will be produced before a court as their seven days of police custody ends on Thursday. The Special Cell is likely to seek their further custody. Two more people -- Lalit Jha and Mahesh Kumawat -- were arrested later in connection with the case and they have also been interrogated, police said.
In a major security breach on the anniversary of the 2001 Parliament terror attack last Wednesday, two men -- Sagar Sharma and Manoranjan D -- jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber from the public gallery during Zero Hour, released coloured smoke and shouted slogans, before being overpowered by the MPs.
CRPF to handle security
The government has decided to hand over the "comprehensive" security of the Parliament building complex to the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) in the wake of the recent breach of the safety ring, official sources said Thursday.
Sources told PTI that the Union Home Ministry on Wednesday directed for a survey of the Parliament building complex so that a "regular deployment of the CISF security and fire wing on a comprehensive pattern" could be done. The survey that will take place soon will have experts from CISF's government building security unit and fire combat and response officers taking part in it. The officials from the current Parliament security team will also be part of the team.
Both the new and the old Parliament complex and their allied buildings will be brought under a comprehensive security cover of the CISF which will also have the existing elements of Parliament Security Service, the Delhi Police and the Parliament Duty Group (PDG) of the CRPF, the sources said. A committee under the chairmanship of CRPF director general Anish Dayal Singh is looking into the overall security issues of the Parliament complex and will make recommendations to the Union home ministry for improvement.
