New Delhi: A man has been arrested for entering Parliament House by climbing a tree and scaling the 20-metre-high boundary wall on Friday morning. This is being considered a major security breach, barely a day after the end of the monsoon session.
The incident occurred around 6.30 am. According to officials, the man, identified as Rama (20), reached the Garuda gate of the new Parliament building by jumping over the wall from the Rail Bhavan side. The Garuda gate is around 15 metres from the wall.
The intruder was caught by the security personnel and is being interrogated, officials said. Sources in the Delhi Police said that the man seems to be suffering from a mental disorder.
“Today, one person was promptly apprehended by alert CISF and Delhi Police staff from near the boundary wall of parliament, while probably attempting to scale inside. He is identified as Rama (20) of Uttar Pradesh. He seems mentally incoherent. Further interrogation and verification are underway,” the police said.
There had been a similar incident of a security breach in 2024 when a man in his early 20s scaled the Parliament wall and jumped inside the Annexe building premises. A purported video of the incident had also surfaced in which the suspect, wearing a pair of shorts and a T-shirt, was seen being held by armed CISF personnel. Nothing incriminating was found on the man during frisking.
In 2023, on the anniversary of the 2001 Parliament terror attack, two people, identified as Sagar Sharma and Manoranjan D, jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber from the public gallery during Zero Hour, released yellow gas from canisters, and shouted slogans before being overpowered by some MPs.
Around the same time, two other accused – Amol Shinde and Neelam Azad – sprayed coloured gas from canisters while shouting “tanashahi nahi chalegi (dictatorship won’t work)” outside Parliament premises. All four were arrested. Two more – identified as Mahesh Kumawat and Lalit Jha – were also arrested in this connection.
