Rights: A day after arresting Bangalore based activist Disha Ravi over a social media toolkit on the farmers’ protest originally tweeted by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, the Delhi Police has issued non-bailable warrants against advocate Nikita Jacob and engineer Shantanu Muluk, accusing them of creating the Google document.
The police said that both Jacob and Muluk work for a UK-based nonprofit Extinction Rebellion (XR) and that neither were at their respective residences in Mumbai and Beed, reported The Indian Express.
Ravi, whose arrest has sparked international outrage, has been accused by the Delhi Police of being the editor of the ‘toolkit Google doc’ and ‘key conspirator’ in the document’s formulation and dissemination. Police alleged that Ravi and others “collaborated with pro-Khalistan Poetic Justice Foundation to spread disaffection against the Indian State,” according to India Today.
Disha Ravi was arrested on Saturday afternoon from her home in Bengaluru. She, reportedly, did not have access to her lawyer—Delhi-based Abhinav Sekhri—when she was produced in court with charges of sedition and conspiracy, and was sent to five days in police custody.
The young graduate of Mount Carmel College is the first to be arrested in the case involving a toolkit designed to support farmer protests against the three farm laws passed by the Centre in September 2020.
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