Indian Parliament security breach: Who are the intruders and how did they enter Lok Sabha?

Lok Sabha Security Breach: The security of Lok Sabha, Indian parliament's lower house comrising of lawmakers directly elected by the people, was breached on Wednesday (Dec 13) after two miscreants entered the parliament and hurled cannisters of coloured smoke while raising slogans stating 'tanashahi nahi chalegi' (No to Autocracy). 

The event momentarily disrupted the Zero Hour of the ongoing Winter Session of the parliament. The attention is now on who these intruders were, how exactly they entered the Lok Sabha and what was their motivation for the act.

Notably, the visitor pass of one intruder was issued by Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker from southern India's Mysuru constituency Pratap Simha. 

Pratap Simha, 42-year-old former journalist, wrote a biography of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2007. He has been elected from Mysuru for the second time in a row in 2019. 

The MP later met Speaker Om Birla and shared that the father of the accused, Sagar Sharma, resides in his constituency, Mysuru, and had requested for the pass. He added that he had no additional information apart from what he shared, said sources.

According to reports, a total of six people were involved in the security breach. 

The two men, who jumped from the public gallery into the area where the lawmakers sit, have been identified as Sagar Sharma and Manoranjan D.

Even as there was chaos in the Lok Sabha, a man and a woman sprayed coloured smoke from canisters and shouted slogans outside Parliament premises. The duo was identified as Amol Shinde and Neelam.

The four were apprehended by the security apparatus deployed at the scene. 

According to Delhi Police sources, the fifth accused in this case, Lalit Jha, was present outside the Parliament House. When the police caught Amol and Neelam, Lalit fled from the spot. 

Police sources say that the investigation so far has revealed that all these people are unemployed and during interrogation the accused have told that they were troubled by unemployment and had reached outside the Parliament House on December 13. 

All four (Neelam, Manoranjan, Sagar, Amol) had given their mobile phones to Lalit. 

As soon as the commotion started, Lalit fled from the spot. Lalit has mobile phones of the detained accused. The search for Lalit was on at the time of filing this report.