Delhi Police, in written communication to
Meta, urged it to access social media accounts of the six accused arrested in
the Parliament security breach case and details of the now-deleted Facebook
page ‘Bhagat Singh Fan Club’, where they met each other.
Police have also collected bank account
details of all the accused to see if they received money from someone for
executing the December 13 incident, police sources said on Monday.
Various Delhi Police teams approached
family members of the accused and collected details of their bank accounts on
Sunday. Bank pass books of Neelam Devi and Sagar Sharma were seized from their
residences in Haryana’s Jind and Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow, respectively, divulged
the sources.
The written communication was sent by Delhi
Police Counter Intelligence unit to Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and
WhatsApp. Facebook page ‘Bhagat Singh Fan Page’ was created by the accused and
later deleted.
Meta has also been requested to share
WhatsApp chats of the accused as their mobile phones have been damaged.
As per police, Lalit Jha, the “mastermind”
of the Parliament security breach conspiracy, threw his mobile phone and burnt
those of other accused in Rajasthan’s Nagaur, where he fled after the incident.
Police later recovered fragments of
broken and burnt mobile phones at Jha’s instance. These parts have been sent to
the forensic department to see if data can be recovered from them.
Delhi Police have arrested six persons
so far – Sagar Sharma, Manoranjan D, Amol Shinde, Neelam Devi, Lalit Jha and
Mahesh Kumawat – for their alleged involvement in the Parliament security
breach case. They have been booked under the stringent Unlawful Activities
(Prevention) Act.
Sagar and Manoranjan had jumped into the
Lok Sabha chamber from the public gallery during Zero Hour on December 13,
released yellow smoke from canisters and shouted slogans before being
overpowered by MPs.
Around the same time, Amol and Neelam
released coloured smoke from canisters outside the Parliament premises and
raised slogans.
Lalit, who was present outside the
Parliament gate, had recorded the act on his mobile phone. He fled to Nagaur
after uploading the video on social media and sharing it with his friends.
Mahesh and another accused Kailash, who are cousins, allegedly arranged his
stay there.
Later, Lalit and Mahesh came to Delhi
and surrendered before police.
The accused told police that they were
influenced by the ideology of revolutionary Bhagat Singh and wanted to send a
message to the government through their act.
PTI
