Tejraj bypassed two layers of security including door frame metal detector
Bengaluru: Two layers of security — a door frame metal detector at the main entrance and security guards posted on the first floor of the building — failed to detect the knife or stop Tejraj Sharma from entering the chamber of Lokayukta P. Vishwanatha Shetty on Wednesday.
It was only on hearing Mr. Shetty’s cries for help that the gunman outside the office realised something was terribly wrong. By then, Tejraj had stabbed Mr. Shetty multiple times with the knife.
According to a The Hindu report, People working at the Lokayukta office in MS Building are not surprised by the security lapses. The door frame metal detector did not beep to alert the guards about an armed man entering the building. “The detector has been dysfunctional for many months now,” say sources.
Sources also confirmed that contrary to procedures laid down earlier, Tejraj was not frisked before he entered the Lokayukta chamber. He entered the office at 12.45 p.m. and wrote his name in the visitor’s register. He then went to meet Mr. Shetty only at 1.50 p.m. He went unchecked for an hour.
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2 killed, 5 injured in firing after mob storms CRPF camp in Manipur's Bishnupur: State home minister
Imphal (PTI): Manipur Home Minister Govindas Konthoujam on Tuesday said two persons were killed and five others injured in firing after a mob stormed a CRPF camp in Bishnupur district.
A large number of youths and women held a protest against the killing of two children in a bomb attack by suspected militants in Moirang Tronglaobi area earlier in the day, he said.
The protesters stormed the CRPF camp near Gelmol, a few 100 metres from the bomb attack site, burnt vehicles and vandalised properties there, he said.
"I had urged the protesters not to enter the CRPF camp and to allow security forces to focus on conducting an operation to apprehend those involved in the bomb attack," the minister said.
But the demonstrators did not pay heed to the appeal.
"They stormed the CRPF camp, burnt vehicles and vandalised portions of the camp, leading to firing by security personnel. They fired either in self-defence or in anger. Two persons, unfortunately, died in the firing, while five others sustained bullet injuries," the state home minister said.
