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| Visitors enter Parliament complex with invalid passes | | | NEW DELHI, DEC 4
A group of 14 visitors entered the tightly-guarded Parliament complex with passes having invalid dates last week and an inquiry has been initiated by officials to ascertain whether there was any security breach.
The incident happened on November 30 when the group holding passes for the previous day managed to reach the gate of the Visitor's Gallery after crossing two security check points.
The visitors from Kerala were then turned back and issued fresh passes for the same day.
"We do not consider it as a security breach. They were found carrying passes with wrong dates and were detected at the point where the validity of the passes were supposed to be checked," Joint Secretary (Parliament Security) Kanwaljit Deol told PTI here.
However, senior officials are looking into the incident to ascertain whether there was any lapse on the part of the security officers, she added.
The validity of the passes are not verified at all security points. "There are points where visitors are checked and frisked and things like that... I would not be able to elaborate because of security reasons," Deol added.
Ironically, the incident happened when a mock drill was being carried out at the complex to test the alertness of the security personnel.
The Parliament was attacked by five heavily-armed terrorists on December 13, 2001 after entering the premises in an ambassador car that had security-cleared stickers of the Home Ministry and Parliament.
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