Manoranjan D, who jumped into the Lok Sabh chamber from the visitors’ gallery on December 13, triggering panic among MPs, is the mastermind of the intrusion, top Intelligence sources have told CNN-News18.
As per the sources, Manoranjan, and not Lalit Mohan Jha, played the titular role in planning the breach. The three other accused — Sagar Sharma, Neelam Azad, and Amol Shinde — have revealed during questioning that it was Manoranjan who instigated them, as they wanted to protest around the outer periphery of Parliament, but he insisted on entering Lok Sabha.
Manorranjan even funded the intrusion to some extent by paying for the tickets of the other accused who paid a visit to Mysuru to meet him.
“After the scrutiny of digital records and bank details, it has been found that no foreign hand is involved in the intrusion. The accused themselves planned and executed the breach,” the sources said.
Meanwhile, police has zeroed in on some more names, including a former cop’ son, who will be questioned soon.
All the accused have been charged under UAPA and they will be produced in court on Thursday as their police custody ends. In all likelihood, police will seek further custody to verify a few more details.
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CNN-News18 had reported earlier that according to the Intelligence inputs, Sagar Sharma, Manoranjan D, Neelam Azad, Amol Shinde and Lalit Jha met for the first time around 18 months ago in Mysuru in order to raise social causes through “some means”.
They again met about nine months ago, and decided to protest outside Parliament, the sources said. Manoranjan visited Parliament in March during the Budget session to do the reconnaissance of the building on a visitor’s pass.
In July, Sagar Sharma, an e-rickshaw driver, came to Parliament in New Delhi and went back to Lucknow without entering in building.
On the night of December 10, Sharma, a resident of Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, arrived at New Delhi Railway Station. After an hour, Shinde, from Maharashtra, Neelam Azad, from Hisar, Haryana, met Sharma at New Delhi Metro Station. Lalit Jha, from Bihar, joined them later in the night, while Manoranjan came to Delhi via a flight from Mysore on December 11 morning.
Together, they left for Vicky Jain’s (Manoranjan’s friend) house in Gurgaon where they stayed till December 13, arranging visitors’ passes for Parliament where they intended to protest on December 14. But they received only two passes after which they decided that only Sharma and Manoranjan will go inside Parliament, cancelling the earlier plan of all six entering the premises.
Sources say Sharma collected the Parliament passes from another Sagar (PA of MP) at 9 am on December 14 from 18 Mahadev Road. He then left for Sadar Bazaar around 10 am and bought two Indian flags, and reached India Gate where he met the rest of the group.
They all held a meeting at India Gate for about half an hour where it was decided that Sagar and Manoranjan will enter the Parliament building.
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