DELHI: Delhi Police officials gave information on Saturday. The Special Cell of Delhi Police, which is investigating the case, will now also record the statement of BJP MP Pratap Simha, on whose recommendation the intruders were allowed to enter Parliament. The five accused arrested in connection with the breach in the Parliament security on December 13, have revealed during interrogation that they had also considered options like self-immolation and distributing leaflets before agreeing to the plan of jumping into the Lok Sabha and blowing smoke. The two men who breached the security inside the House had got a pass through Simha. A Delhi Police officer said, before finalizing the plan to jump into the Lok Sabha, the accused had explored some ways through which they could effectively convey the message.
All five accused are currently in seven-day police custody. The officer said that they also considered distributing leaflets inside the Parliament, but ultimately chose the option of spreading smoke in the Parliament. The official said the ‘counter intelligence team’ of the special cell is also planning to record the statement of BJP MP from Mysuru Simha in connection with the case. Sources said the investigators have not given a clean chit to Mahesh and Kailash, accused of helping Jha escape. Police will soon take Jha to Nagaur in Rajasthan where he was staying on Wednesday after escaping. Another officer said that he would be taken to the place where he claimed to have destroyed his and other accused’s mobile phones.
A Delhi Police officer aware of the investigation said, “Before finalizing this plan (of jumping into the Lok Sabha chamber), they (the accused) had explored some ways through which they could effectively convey their message to the government. ” He told that the accused first considered committing suicide by covering their bodies with fire retardant paste but then abandoned the idea. Accused Sagar Sharma and Manoranjan D had jumped from the audience gallery into the Lok Sabha chamber during zero hour. Both of them also raised slogans while blowing yellow gas from ‘can’ in the House, after which the MPs caught them. Around the same time, two other accused, Amol Shinde and Neelam Verma, spread colored smoke from ‘canes’ and raised slogans of ‘dictatorship will not work’ outside the Parliament House. The fifth accused, Lalit Jha, had allegedly circulated videos of protests outside the campus on social media.
