Google’s response to ‘toolkit’ request awaited, say cops
Karn Pratap Singh
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police on Saturday said they were waiting for a response from Google from which they have sought assistance in identifying the author/creator of a “toolkit” or document, which allegedly detailed an action plan for online and offline protests associated with the ongoing farmers’ agitation.
Any concrete progress in the investigation into the toolkit case will happen only when the Google helps the investigating team with the IP addresses and details of the two e-mail accounts, through which the toolkit was created, a senior police officer associated with the probe said.
“We are hoping that Google will share the desired information. As of now, we are collecting details of the social media accounts that posted the toolkit or screenshots of its content,” said the officer.
On Friday, the cyber prevention and awareness detection (CYPAD) unit of the city police sent a letter to Google and asked for details of the people who drafted the toolkit, edited and circulated it.
Separately, the police are also trying to get details of the Instagram account mentioned on the original toolkit, through which a live session was screened.
Apart from the toolkit case, police have registered 44 more cases in connection with January 26 violence and the incident of January 29 when a group of people, claiming to be locals, entered the protest site at
Singhu border and clashed with farmers and police.
Police on Saturday updated the list of arrested persons on their website.
The new list has the names of 125 persons, three more than the previous list. The names of three persons, who were arrested by the Burari police station on February 3, also figure in the updated list. Their identification was done on the basis of video footage analysis.
While two persons have been arrested so far in connection with the vandalism and violence at the Red Fort, investigators said that they have been conducting raids to nab eight key suspects, including actor Deep Sidhu and one Jugraj Singh, who were allegedly involved in the violence at the UNESCO World Heritage site.
Police have identified Jugraj as the one who had allegedly hoisted a religious flag at the ramparts of the fort.
The other six absconding suspects have been identified as Buta Singh, Iqbal Singh, Gurjant Singh, Gurjot Singh, Jagbir Singh and Sukhdev Singh. Police have already announced ₹6 lakh rewards — ₹1 lakh each for Deep, Jugraj, Gurjant and Gurjot while ₹50,000 each for the other four – for information leading to their arrest.
Another officer who did not want to be named said that Iqbal has been identified as the one who had done a Facebook live from the Red Fort during the violence.
Officials said they have identified over 100 suspects and notices are being sent to them for joining the investigations.