Parl accused part of groups named after Azad, Bhagat

Cops visit Lalit’s home, drops plan to recreate crime scene

A TEAM of the Delhi police visited a flat in Kolkata to find more details about Lalit Jha. The team again went to the flat on Rabindra Sarani along with the local police, scrutinised the entire place, and spoke to the landlord.

The probe agencies investigating the Parliament security breach on Tuesday said the six people arrested as of now were part of half a dozen WhatsApp groups named after Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekar Azad.

The accused and other members of these groups would regularly discuss the thoughts and ideas of the freedom fighters and also share related video clips.

Further, a team of the Delhi police visited a flat in Kolkata to find more details about Lalit Jha. The team again went to the flat on Rabindra Sarani along with the local police, scrutinised the entire place, and spoke to the landlord.

“Jha’s family was staying in the flat even three ◗ days before the incident,” sources said.

Further, the police sources claimed that as of now there is no need to recreate the crime scene as the entire incident was captured on CCTV cameras.

“We have collected the CCTV footage and teams are scanning them. We have also questioned the accused on the basis of footage and so far, there is no need to recreate the crime scene,” said the sources.

The social Instagram media— and

Facebook—posts of the accused showed that they were greatly inspired by the revolutionary leaders and therefore decided to replicate Bhagat Singh’s act in Parliament.

Meanwhile, the police also retrieved the details of all the members of these WhatsApp groups from Meta as well as their chats, sources said.

According to the sources, the accused would also talk on the Signal app to plan the security breach and had met in Mysuru, Karnataka, last year.

Manoranjan D, who hails from Mysuru, had borne the travel expenses of the five, an official said.

The police is also trying to get duplicate SIM cards of the accused whose mobile phones were allegedly destroyed and burnt by Jha and Mahesh Kumawat in Rajasthan.