IN THE CROSSHAIRS
The Delhi Police’s cyber crime unit on Saturday night arrested 22-year-old climate activist Disha Ravi from her house in Bengaluru for allegedly sharing a toolkit related to the farmers’ protests. Non-bailable warrants have been issued against Mumbai lawyer Nikita Jacob and Pune engineer Shantanu for allegedly creating the toolkit
THE CHARGES
The police said Ravi sent the toolkit to climate activist Greta Thunberg through Telegram, and "coaxed her to act on it". The data was later deleted, the police said. They said several hyperlinks in the Google docs file were “pro-Khalistani". "The toolkit was aimed at tarnishing the image of India " the police said. Ravi has been boo sedition, prom enmity and criminal conspiracy, among oth offences
THUNBERG ANGLE
Thunberg shared the toolkit to lend her support to the farmers' agitation. In the document, various urgent actions, including creating a Twitter storm and protesting outside Indian embassies, were listed. Ravi is associated with the environmental movement called “Fridays for Future”, which was spearheaded by Thunberg
‘R-DAY LINK’
Farmers protesting the farm aws clashed with the police ring their tractor parade on uary 26. It descended into lence as protesters stormed ramparts of the Red Fort. olice say the toolkit is d to the chaos
PROTESTS
Politicians and activists have condemned the 22-year-old’s arrest. Groups of people gathered in Bengaluru and Mumbai and held placards seeking her release. The Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of 40 farm unions protesting the laws, also demanded that she be freed