Parliament security breach: Five accused reveal their initial plan to perform self-immolation

The five people, who were arrested for the Parliament security breach on December 13, said that they were earlier considering options of self-immolation and distribution of pamphlets before they decided to jump from the visitors' gallery into the Lok Sabha with smoke canisters, said Delhi Police officials on Saturday (Dec 16).

The Special Cell of Delhi Police, which has been investigating the case, also plansto record thestatement of BJP MP Pratap Simha, who had issued the visitor passes to the two men who later breached the security.

Two men, identified as Sagar Sharma and Manoranjan D, jumped from the public gallery into Lok Sabha during the Zero Hour and released yellow smoke from canisters while shouting slogans, after which the MPs and security officials overpowered them.

At the same time, two others - Amol Shinde and Neelam Devi - released coloured smoke from canisters while they shouted "tanashahi nahi chalegi" (dictatorship will not prevail) outside the Parliament premises.

The fifth accused, Lalit Jha, allegedly circulated videos of the protest, which took place outside the parliament, on social media.

"Before finalising this plan (to jump into the Lok Sabha chamber), they (accused) had explored certain ways that could be impactful in sending across their message," said a Delhi Police official, who had information about the investigations, while speaking to the Press Trust of India.

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Plans to distribute pamphlets, carry out self-immolation

The first option which they explored was immolating themselves by putting fireproof gel all over their bodies, however, later they dropped this idea.

The official said that they were also considering distributing pamphlets inside the Parliamentand later forming a political party but finally went ahead with the plan which they executed on Wednesday.

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The official said that a team of the Special Cell's Counter Intelligence has also planned to record the official statement of Simha, the BJP's MP from Mysore.

On Friday, the investigators took the accused to different places where they held meetings and conspired on the parliament security breach.

All the six accused arrested were sent to seven days of police custody.

(With inputs from agencies)