Patna:A man who breached Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's security during the Independence Day event in the state on Tuesdasywas a job seeker from Munger district and wanted employment on compassionate grounds. After the man identified as Nitish Mandal entered zone D of the chief minister's security, he was overpowered and taken out of the premises.
"We have detained the person and quizzed him on breaching the security of the chief minister during the Independence Day celebration," Patna District Magistrate Chandrashekhar Singh said. "Nitish Mandal said his father Rajeshwar Mandal was a Bihar Military Police Jawan who died on duty during the election in 1996. He said that his father was deployed on election duty and met with an explosion while returning home. We have conveyed the message to the chief minister and Bihar police headquarters," Singh added.