The police in India have arrested a man who is said to be an important person involved in the security breach at the parliament.
Lalit Jha, who is a teacher, gave himself up to the police in Delhi, India on Thursday. He hasn’t been brought to court yet.
Four more people were arrested on Wednesday and now face charges under a tough anti-terror law.
They have been taken to jail by the police for a week.
The break-in at parliament has been the main news in India since Wednesday. It happened on the 22nd anniversary of a terrible attack on the parliament. This was just a few hours after the Prime Minister and others honored the people who were hurt or killed in the attack.
Two men named Manoranjan D and Sagar Sharma went into the MPs’ room, yelling and creating smoke. Two more people named Neelam and Amol Shinde were taken into custody for yelling chants and using colored gas outside the house.
The four people in their 20s and 30s told the police that they were jobless and wanted to show they were unhappy with the government’s rules.
The police have not found any link between the four people they arrested and any political groups.
Some news reports say that Mr. Jha is the suspected leader who planned the security breach. He hasn’t said anything since the breach.
The Times of India newspaper said that Mr Jha gave himself up to the police, and he was with another man who was also arrested.
On Wednesday, a lawyer told a court in Delhi that the protest was a carefully planned plot while asking for custody of the four other accused.
The breach has caused a big political argument – on Thursday, 14 opposition lawmakers were told they couldn’t be in parliament because they were protesting. They want to talk about the breach and are asking Mr Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to say something about it.
They also want something to be done to Pratap Simha, a member of the BJP party, who they say signed the passes for the people who entered the public gallery in parliament without permission.
Mr Simha and his party have not said anything about this officially. One of the people who is accused, Manoranjan, is from the area that Mr. Simha represents
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Major suspect in India’s parliament breach detained
