Weeks after a 37-year-old man forced his way through the VIP entrance to the Delhi Assembly complex in an SUV, police said that the accused hid in the Speaker’s official vehicle before fleeing the spot in his own car.

Delhi Police filed a chargesheet in the case last week.

Police said that when the accused, Sarabjeet Singh, who is currently in jail, reached the Assembly, he found Gate No. 2 closed and security personnel stationed there. He allegedly crashed through the boom barrier at the gate, drove his Tata Sierra car to the porch area, got off and put down a bouquet of red flowers.

When security officials H C Jai Prakash (CRPF) and ASI Raj Kumar (Security) tried to stop him, he allegedly attempted to run them over with his vehicle, police said. They said that he hid in the Speaker’s vehicle, got back into his own car shortly after, and sped away.

Police said the investigation revealed that the accused’s nephew, Harman, had gone missing from New Delhi on April 1. Extensive efforts to locate him went in vain.

Police also stated that Singh held the administration responsible for his nephew’s disappearance, and also believed that proper action was not taken.

Police said that the investigation revealed that he wanted to draw the attention of the government so that serious efforts would be made to find his missing nephew.

He travelled to Delhi from Punjab on April 6, the day of the incident, in his car, police said, adding that he bought the bouquet near Panipat that he intended to present to a senior official in the Assembly while expressing his anguish.

The 311-page chargesheet, police said, is based on 44 witnesses, CCTV footage, witness statements, and medical reports, and there is sufficient evidence against Singh.

Singh, along with two of his nephews, had also allegedly travelled towards Nangal in Punjab’s Anandpur Sahib, where Harman’s last known location was traced. An officer associated with the investigation said the three stayed the night in Bareilly and resumed their journey around 3.45 pm on April 4, crossing Moradabad, Ghaziabad, and Sonipat before reaching Anandpur Sahib in Rupnagar district on April 5.

They visited a gurdwara there. “Sarabjeet does not wear a turban and does not have long hair, but while offering prayers, he had vowed to wear a turban and never cut his hair if Harman was found,” the officer said.

Following the security breach in the Assembly, the Chief Minister, Rekha Gupta, had chaired a high-level meeting attended by officials of the Delhi Police, the Intelligence Bureau, and the Public Works Department.

Several measures, including enhanced coordination and real-time information sharing among agencies, deployment of a dedicated mobile patrol vehicle for rapid response, and strengthening access-control infrastructure to prevent forcible entry attempts, were proposed, said officials.

Following the incident, the security of the Speaker was also upgraded.