India's Modi calls for probe, not debate, of parliament breach

FILE PHOTO: Security force personnel stand guard outside the parliament premises after a man jumped into the lawmakers' area of the lower house of India's parliament, in New Delhi, India, December 13, 2023. REUTERS/Sahiba Chawdhary/File Photo

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a detailed investigation into last week's major security breach of parliament, countering demands from opposition parties for a debate in the chamber on the incident.

"What happened is very serious," Modi told the Dainik Jagran newspaper in an interview published on Sunday, his first comments on Wednesday's breach. "There is no need to debate this, there should be a detailed investigation into this."