From First Meet in Mysuru to Barging in Parliament: How Intruders Planned Security Breach | Timeline

Chaos ensued in the Lower House of the Parliament when two intruders entered the premises and released canisters emanating yellow-coloured smoke on Wednesday. The breach was allegedly planned by seven individuals, who had been in touch with each other for quite a while before carrying out the attack.

The mastermind of the conspiracy, Lalit Mohan Jha was arrested by Special Cell in New Delhi late Thursday night.

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Here’s how Intruders Planned the Parliament Security Breach –

• While proceedings were underway in Lok Sabha under the Winter Session of the Parliament, two intruders stormed the premises with canisters that emitted coloured smoke on Thursday.
• The breach took place on the 22nd anniversary of the 2001 Parliament attacks.
• According to the initial probe by security agencies, the breach was well-coordinated and meticulously planned, allegedly by seven people, six of whom have been nabbed.
• In 2022, Lalit Jha, 26-year-old Sagar Sharma, and 34-year-old Maoranjan D met in Karnataka’s Mysuru and made a plan to barge into the parliament to attract the attention of the country.
• The trio was later joined by 37-year-old Neelam and 25-year-old Amol. The group of five joined a Bhagat Singh fan page on Facebook.
• Lalit Jha, allegedly the main mind behind the conspiracy, asked Manoranjan to conduct a recce of the Parliament building earlier this year in July.
• On Sunday, the group of five met at Gurugram resident Vishal Sharma’s house and stayed there till Tuesday.
• On Wednesday morning, all five left for the Parliament building. Manoranjan had already procured visitor passes through Mysore-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha.
• Sagar and Manoranjan entered the new Parliament building and into the visitors’ gallery.
• At around 1:00 pm, Sagar made the jump from the visitors’ gallery into the Lok Sabha chamber carrying a smoke canister. Manoranjan also tried to jump and was seen hanging from the railing. The duo had hidden smoke canisters inside their shoes.
• They released yellow-coloured gas from canisters in the Parliament.
• Chaos ensued but the duo were caught and thrashed by the MPs in the House and handed over to security personnel.
• Around the same time, Neelam and Amol released gas from similar canisters and raised slogans outside the Parliament building.
• Lalit, meanwhile, recorded a video that later surfaced on Instagram.
• While Neelam and Amol were caught by the police, while Lalit managed to escape at the time.
• Sagar, Manoranjan, Neelam and Amol were then taken to Parliament Street Police Station.
• A case under the anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act was registered against all of them.
• Vishal and his wife were also detained from Gurugram.
• Later the Special Cell of Delhi Police joined the investigation. On Thursday, Patiala House Court granted 7-day custody of all four accused to the Delhi Police Special Cell.
• Mastermind of the conspiracy, Lalit Mohan Jha was arrested by Special Cell in New Delhi late Thursday night.
• An anti-terror unit special cell is investigating the case.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired a high level meeting over the breach. BJP National President JP Nadda and Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Pralhad Joshi and Piyush Goyal were also present at the meeting.

(With PTI inputs)