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Parliament Security Breach: A Delhi Court on Thursday granted seven day police remand to all the four accused in the Parliament security breach case. All four of them, named Manoranjan D, Sagar Sharma, Neelam Azad, and Amol Shinde, were produced before the Patiala House Court in the national capital. The government lawyer representing police had demanded fifteen days to unearth the attack on Parliament. He said that other people's roles are likely to come, which needs to be seen, and their association with other countries and terrorist organizations, citing that such language normal people cannot write.

Delhi police has called the security breach in Parliament a well planned attack. It had demanded 15-day remand from the police. The accused have been charged under  anti-terror law UAPA besides sections of Indian Penal Code.

Meanwhile, a video was shared by news agency ANI showing a house in Gurugram where the accused in the parliament's security breach allegedly stayed briefly before the incident. The house belongs to Vicky Sharma. His daughter has been taken away by his relatives after Sharma and his wife were detained by police.

 

News agency ANI citing police said that the girl besides two pet dogs have been taken to Rohtak. They have also got all the undertaking from them in writing.

On thursday, Congress national president and the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, wrote to the chairman of the Upper House, Jagdeep Dhankhar, over the major security breach. In his letter Vice President Dhankhar, the LoP in the Upper House labelled the breach in Parliament security as a grave matter, demanding that Union Home Minister Amit Shah make a statement on the issue following which a discussion should happen under Rule 267.

"The breach of Parliament security which occurred on 13th December 2023 in the Lok Sabha Chamber and the Parliament precincts is a very grave matter unparalleled in the recent past. In view of the gravity of the matter, myself in consultation with floor leaders of INDIA Parties in Parliament have come to a considered view that the matter is of such a critical importance that it needs to be raised under Rule 267 of the Rules and Procedure of Council of States (Rajya Sabha)," Kharge wrote in his letter.

"Further, till the Minister of Home Affairs makes a statement on this matter followed by a discussion under Rule 267, there is no occasion for taking up any other business in the House or even for any meeting to "sort out this matter" in any other manner," he stated.

(With input from agencies)