India, Aug. 20 -- CCTV camera footage has emerged, purportedly showing Rajesh Khimji - the man accused of attacking Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta - conducting a recce of her Shalimar Bagh residence on August 19, a day before the incident at a Jan Sunvai event.

According to news agency ANI, the footage was released by the chief minister's office.

Sources in the Delhi BJP said the attacker first gave the chief minister some papers during the public hearing and then allegedly attacked her. The accused, Rajesh (41), who resided with his wife, son and parents at Gokul Park on Kotharia Road in Gujarat's Rajkot city.

According to reports, the man had approached the Jan Sunvai with a plea seeking the release of a relative lodged in jail. He...