Security Violation in an area that is expected to be thoroughly sanitized. It is not yet known how the boy, who is 11 years old, managed to get so close to the Prime Minister.
In Karnataka’s Hubbali by a boy who jumped onto the road suddenly today during his roadshow Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security the highest in the country was breached and managed to get within an arm’s length of him. He was intercepted at the last minute and whisked away by the Special Protection Group or SPG of the Prime Minister.
The boy was carrying a garland and apparently trying to felicitate the Prime Minister, who was riding on the running board of an SUV and waving to cheering crowds. While the SPG men immediately blocked him, the Prime Minister was seen accepting the garland and handing it to a security official.
While hundreds of slogan-shouting supporters lined the road from the airport, they were well behind the barricades. It is not yet known how the boy, who is 11 years old, managed to get so close to the Prime Minister in an area that is expected to be thoroughly sanitized.
Holding a roadshow from the airport to the Railway Sports Ground, where the ceremony will be held. The Prime Minister, who is expected to open the 29th National Youth Festival this evening.
PM Modi’s security was breached last year during his visit to Punjab. While on his way to Ferozepur for an election rally on January 5, the Prime Minister’s cavalcade was stopped for 20 minutes on a flyover in full view of television cameras due to a blockade by protesting farmers. The Prime Minister has a five-layer security, of which the outermost layer is the responsibility of the state police.
The Supreme Court had said a committee probing the security breach found lapses on part of the Punjab police. The five-member committee, led by former Supreme Court judge Justice Indu Malhotra, later suggested remedial measures to strengthen the Prime Minister’s security.
