Report by Tanya Singh:
Delhi police’s special cell arrested 21-year-old climate activist Disha Ravi for allegedly disseminating the ‘toolkit’ related to farmers’ protests on social media- the same one shared by climate activist Greta Thunberg in Bengaluru on Sunday. Arguing for the Delhi Police, the public prosecutor alleged a large conspiracy against the government of India to rebuild the Khalistan group via the toolkit and claimed that there were thousands of people involved in it.
Refuting 21-year-old climate activist Disha Ravi’s claims, Delhi police on Sunday, stated that Ravi had done more than ‘editing 2 lines of the toolkit’ document. Alleging that Ravi had started a Whatsapp group to collaborate with ‘toolkit’ authors – pro-Khalistani group ‘Poetic Justice Foundation’, Delhi police added that she had shared the document with Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and later asked to remove the ‘main doc’. Ravi has been remanded to police custody for five days by the Patiala House Court, after she was picked by Delhi police in Bengaluru.
On February 5, Delhi Special CP Crime Praveer Ranjan said that a case has been filed on the authors of the ‘toolkit document’ shared by Thunberg as it aimed to create disaffection and disharmony. Addressing a press conference, Ranjan said that the FIR filed under sections 124 A (sedition), 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 153 A (spreading hatred among communities) of IPC, did not name anyone. Pointing out that the ‘prior actions’ section of the tool-kit – authored by Poetic Justice Foundation (PJF), Ranjan said that it was a ‘planned conspiracy to execute such a plan’.