Image Source : TWITTER From local weather activist to ‘Toolkit Editor’, who’s Disha Ravi?
Disha Ravi has been featured in publications internationally as a younger activist voicing her sturdy opinions in regards to the environmental disaster in India. However, the 21-year-old local weather activist from the Soladevanahalli space of Bengaluru was arrested by Delhi Police’s Special Cell on Saturday for her alleged position within the notorious “toolkit” which, in keeping with police, was behind the January 26 violence within the capital.
Graduating from Mount Carmel College in Bengaluru, she has been repeatedly writing columns and articles in main information portals on local weather motion and is a well-known title in vital local weather boards frequented by youth activists throughout the globe.
Disha describes herself as co-founder of Fridays For Future, India.
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In an interview to Auto Report Africa in 2020, she is quoted as saying: “My motivation to join climate activism came from seeing my grandparents, who are farmers, struggle with the effects of the climate crisis. At the time, I wasn’t aware that what they were experiencing was the climate crisis because climate education is non-existent where I’m from. Only when I did my research, did I find out about it.”
However, Disha’s position got here below the lens of the Delhi Police after Swedish local weather activist Greta Thunberg tweeted a toolkit doc which the police say had led to the January 26 violence in New Delhi. Though the Delhi Police didn’t title Thunberg within the FIR, it went forward to register the case in opposition to the authors of the toolkit.
The police later described Disha Ravi as key conspirator within the doc’s formulation and dissemination and mentioned that she began a WhatsApp group and collaborated to draft the doc.
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“In this process, they all collaborated with pro-Khalistani Poetic Justice Foundation to spread disaffection against the Indian state. She was the one who shared the Toolkit doc with Greta Thunberg,” mentioned a senior police officer.
The “toolkit” is a time period activists use for a marketing campaign info doc.
However, the Delhi Police additionally mentioned that she requested Greta to take away the primary doc after its incriminating particulars by accident leaked into the general public area. This is many instances greater than the 2 traces modifying that she claims, they mentioned.
The Delhi Police had registered an FIR on February 4 on costs of sedition, prison conspiracy and selling hatred amongst teams below Sections 124-A, 120-A and 153-A of the Indian Penal Code in opposition to the “creators” of the ‘toolkit’, which was shared by Thunberg.
After Disha Ravi has been despatched to police remand for 5 days, sources in Delhi Police mentioned that extra arrests are possible, primarily based on the investigation of the arrested accused.
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