DISHA SENT TO 3 DAYS’ JUDICIAL CUSTODY, BAIL HEARING TODAY

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Friday sent climate activist Disha Ravi to jail for three days at the request of Delhi Police which will seek her custody again next week to confront her with the co-accused.

Additional chief metropolitan magistrate (ACMM) Akash Jain sent 22-year-old Ravi to three days’ judicial custody after she was produced in court at the end of five days of police custody.

The activist was arrested from Bengaluru on February 13 by Delhi Police for allegedly creating and sharing a protest toolkit backing the farmers’ agitation against the Centre’s new farm laws.

Delhi Police claimed on Monday that Ravi, along with Mumbai-based lawyer Nikita Jacob and Pune engineer Shantanu Muluk, created the toolkit and shared it with others “to tarnish India’s image”. The two have already been granted transit anticipatory bail by the Bombay high court.

On Friday, Ravi was brought to the court amid high security by the investigating agency which sought that she be sent to judicial custody for three days.

Additional public prosecutor (APP) Irfan Ahmed told the court that the police had issued a notice to co-accused Shantanu Muluk for February 22 for joining the probe and that’s when they would again question Ravi.

Countering the submissions by the APP, Siddharth Agarwal, representing Ravi, said the case diary was not properly given and also not in accordance with the law. He said it was not even paginated.A case diary is a record of daily investigation.