‘Toolkit’: Police to also probe role of UK-based woman
◗ ACCORDING TO a senior police official, Marina Patterson made a package and added to the document through hyperlink
Marine Patterson, who is a member of the UK chapter of Extinction Rebellion (XR), role will be investigated by the Delhi police after the ongoing probe revealed that she allegedly along with Nikita and Shantanu drafted content for a tweet storm on February 4 and 5. Police said that along with Nikita and Shantanu drafted content between February 1 and 2 for next tweet storm planned for February 4 and 5.
The senior police officials said that while examining the WhatsApp chats, another name Thilaka, also a member of XR, emerged and during investigation, police found that Thilaka also helped them in drafting the document and was in contact with Nikita and Disha, which is being investigated by the police teams.
According to a senior police official, Marina Patterson made a package and added to the document through hyperlink.
“The toolkit was accidently published when she was simultaneously editing it. she wrote that police are attacking protesters… many injured, many disappearing and many individuals are already reported dead. This was created to mislead in future. They wrote it before the actual thing happened,” he said.
Meanwhile, police giving details about the sequence said that there was a connection established between Nikita, Shantanu and Disha during 2019-2020 and Puneet, a Canada based woman and member of Poetic Justice Foundation (PJF), connected with Nikita and Shantanu on Instagram in the first week of December.
On December 6, Disha, Nikita, Shantanu and Disha started a WhatsApp group and Shantanu created an email id scrapfarmacts@gmail.com on December 11. PJF started its work on January 26 protest on January 3. On January 9, PJF announced Global day of Action on January 26, police said.
Zoom meeting was held on January 11 between all collaborators, including PJF founder Mo Dhaliwal, its co-founder Anita Lal along with Nikita, Shantanu and others, police said.
PJF and other organisations added several hyperlinks to the toolkit document. One of these is genocidewatch.com, they said. Nikita, Shantanu and Disha and others collaborated with others to finalise the toolkit content between January 1112. On Janury 18, AskIndiaWhy.com site was launched by PJF, police said.
On January 20, the draft toolkit Google doc was shared between Nikita, Shantanu and Disha for final vetting. Shantanu was here in the national capital from January 21 to 27 at protest site, police said.