Parliament security breach: Mastermind Lalit Jha arrested in Delhi

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Parliament security breach incident, was arrested on Thursday evening, police sources said.

According to them, Jha was arrested from the national capital.

In a major security breach on the anniversary of the 2001 Parliament terror attack on Wednesday, two men — Sagar Sharma and Manoranjan D — jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber from the public gallery during Zero Hour, released yellow smoke from canisters and shouted slogans before being overpowered by MPs.

Around the same time, two others, including a woman, raised slogans and released yellow smoke from canisters outside the Parliament premises, prompting police to round up the duo.

According to police, the Parliament security breach was well-coordinated, meticulously planned and carried out by six people, all of whom are now in police custody.

While Sagar, Manoranjan, Amol and Neelam were nabbed from incident spot, their accomplice Vishal, in whose house they stayed before reaching Parliament, was detained from Gurugram.

«Jha was arrested from New Delhi,» a police source said on Thursday.


Neighbors of Lalit Jha, the alleged mastermind in the Parliament security breach, were surprised to see his images on news channels, recalling him as a reserved individual who seldom engaged with the community at Burrabazar in Kolkata.



Papun Shaw, a tea stall owner at Rabindra Sarani in the Burrabazar area, the business district of the city, identified Jha as a 'teacher' who disappeared two years ago.

Shaw said, «He was known as a teacher, used to teach local students. A few years back, he came to the area and was living alone.

He hardly used to interact with locals. At times he would have tea at my stall.

He used to keep a very low profile. He suddenly left the area two