A 35-year-old man who suddenly appeared on the scene and lay on the road near Parliament House on Tuesday when Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s convoy was approaching.
It created a scare but the alert security personnel accompanying the Defence Minister took control of the man and draw him out from the road.
The man identified as Vishambhar Das Gupta, a resident of Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh was taken for questioning at the Parliament Street Police Station. He was questioned at length by the security agencies.
He was later released after agencies found nothing was amiss and the man in question was also found to be mentally deranged. “During initial investigation, it was revealed that when Defence Minister’s convoy was near Parliament, the man lied down on the road around 1.25 pm, demanding that he be allowed to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he wanted to get his name in the Aadhaar card changed,” said the senior police official.
