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  • Disha Ravi was a part of Indian chapter of world conspiracy to defame India: Delhi Police tells court docket

    Image Source : AP Climate activist Disha Ravi walks outdoors a court docket in New Delhi.
    The Delhi Police on Saturday knowledgeable a metropolis court docket that Disha Ravi, who’s underneath judicial custody within the toolkit case over farmers protest, was a part of Indian chapter of world conspiracy to defame India, create unrest within the garb of farmers’ protest, PTI reported.

    During the listening to on Ravi’s bail plea at the moment, the Delhi Police additionally knowledgeable court docket that the ‘toolkit’ conspiracy was a sinister design to defame India and set off violence, for which Poetic Justice Foundation and banned organisation Sikhs For Justice used local weather activist Disha Ravi.

    “Poetic Justice Foundation and Sikhs For Justice in order to hide their involvement, used Disha Ravi as a front to carry out nefarious activity,” Additional Solicitor General SV Raju advised the court docket and stated that these organisations are related to the Khalistani motion.

    Disha Ravi faces conspiracy, sedition costs in toolkit case

    Ravi, who faces costs of conspiracy and sedition within the ‘Toolkit’ conspiracy case associated to the farmers’ agitation, was arrested from Bengaluru on February 13.

    The contentions have been made through the 3-hour-long listening to on the bail petition of Ravi. Additional Sessions Judge Dharmendra Rana has reserved the order for February 23. READ MORE

    “The reality behind the Toolkit is a sinister design to not only defame India but cause violence. This is only a facade and taking advantage of farmer agitation and run an agenda,” Raju advised the court docket.

    He stated that Ravi, together with co-accused Nikita Jacob and Shantanu Muluk wished to make the farmers agitation worldwide.

    “They were in constant touch with PJF owner MO Dhaliwal and Anita Lal and also SFJ. They have same motive and remain in touch with each other. The purpose was to facilitate the Khalistani movement.”

    ASG Raju stated that Disha Ravi was in contact with them and was making ready and sharing the toolkit with these advocating Khalistan. Advocate Sidharth Agrawal, representing the accused, advised the court docket that there isn’t any proof to point out that ‘Toolkit’ is answerable for the violence.

    “Nobody arrested in connection with Red Fort violence has said that he was inspired by Toolkit,” Defence tells court docket. Advocate Siddhartha additional advised the court docket that there isn’t any proof to hyperlink Ravi with Sikhs For Justice, a banned organisation.

    Ravi, at the moment in judicial custody

    The 21-year-old activist was despatched to a few days judicial custody on Friday, after the police advised the court docket that they may search her custody later to confront her with co-accused Shantanu Mukul, who will be part of the probe on February 22.

    The Delhi Police have contended that the Google doc tweeted by Swedish local weather activist Greta Thunberg to again the farmers’ protest after which deleted, was created by Ravi and two different activists — Nikita Jacob and Shantanu Muluk.

    ALSO READ | Greta Thunberg now tweets in help of Disha Ravi, arrested in toolkit case

     

    A ‘toolkit’ is a sequence of pointers suggesting how a specific intention will be achieved. Toolkits chart out plans of motion explaining subjects at hand and provides recommendations that might be adopted to realize specific objectives.

    On February 14, the Delhi Police took to microblogging web site Twitter to elaborate on the case. It wrote, “Disha Ravi, arrested by Delhi Police, is an Editor of the Toolkit Google Doc and key conspirator in document’s formulation and dissemination.”

    She began WhatsApp Group and collaborated to make the Toolkit doc, the police stated, including that she labored intently with them to draft it.

    “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,” the police wrote on Twitter.

    Later, she allegedly requested Thunberg to take away the primary doc after its incriminating particulars by accident obtained into public area, the police added.

    ALSO READ | Toolkit case: Delhi court docket reserves order on Disha Ravi’s bail plea for Tuesday

     
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  • Disha Ravi arrest: BJP launches all-out counter assault, says opposition stands with ‘anti-India’ forces

    Image Source : VIDEO GRAB INDIA TV Disha Ravi arrest: BJP launches all-out counter assault, says opposition stands with ‘anti-India’ forces
    The Bharatiya Janata Party has launched an all-out counter-offensive in opposition to the opposition for its criticism of the federal government over the arrest of local weather activist Disha Ravi. Party spokesperson Sambit Patra stated that the opposition, particularly the Congress, have all the time stood with “anti-India” forces of their bid to assault Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
    Patra cited the Delhi Police press convention to allege that Ravi’s arrest has completely uncovered the “nefarious conspiracies of the break India forces” to demean the integrity of India.
    “Astonishingly for the opposition, Bharat Ratnas like Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar can be investigated but ‘break India forces’ should receive protection under the garb of freedom of expression. These parties were crying ‘arrest the perpetrators’ on 26th January, but today when they are arrested, the same Congress cries foul,” Patra stated.
    He alleged that they not solely created a toolkit which perpetrated the January 26 disruption but additionally collided with a banned organisation Poetic Justice Foundation to promulgate the Khalistani design to belittle India.
    READ MORE: From local weather activist to ‘Toolkit Editor’, who’s Disha Ravi?
    Union minister Prakash Javadekar, wrote about their work once they had been 21, additionally the age of Ravi, to get again on the critics. He posted a bunch image of his ABVP days, and famous that three of them are presently Union ministers, Prahlad Patel and Kishan Reddy moreover him.
    “At 21 we in ABVP and other colleges were debating about how to take the country forward. We were engaged in all kind of constructive, nation-building work,” he stated.
    With critics citing Ravi’s younger age moreover her background of environmental activism to slam her arrest, BJP leaders, together with occasion basic secretary BL Santhosh, questioned if these had been credentials for changing into part of “breaking India forces”.

    “21 year old, environment activist, student. Are these credentials for becoming a part of breaking India forces? How does she get the access for editing toolkit? Why she is part of anti-national WhatsApp groups? Many questions but only one answer: 21 year old,” Santhosh tweeted.
    READ MORE: Nikita Jacob, Shantanu, Disha Ravi created toolkit; despatched to Greta Thunberg on Telegram: Delhi Police
    “Bengaluru, Greta Thunberg, Vegan, sole bread winner, student, 21 year old, passionate activist. so many attempts to white wash a sin! Not one anarchist ready to answer the question. How 21 year old student got access to edit Toolkit,” he added.
    Another occasion chief and Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat stated if age is the factors then Param Veer Chakra Second Lt Arun Khetarpal, martyred at 21 is who I’m happy with. “Not some toolkit propagandists.”
    BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia stated, “A criminal is a criminal, gender and age are immaterial if not a juvenile. Just for your knowledge, Kasab was 21 when he attacked Mumbai. Supporting ‘farmers’ is not a crime but conspiring against India and inciting others surely is.”
    BJP’s IT cell in-charge Amit Malviya stated, the Left has been utilizing younger impressionable minds as cannon fodder for his or her deranged politics for a very long time. “From JNU to Jamia, AMU to Nadwa and now Disha Ravi, are all part of their sinister plot. Unfortunately they are abandoned soon after they have served their purpose,” he tweeted,
    Disha Ravi was arrested on Saturday for her involvement within the toolkit doc case associated to farmers’ protest in opposition to the Modi authorities’s three agri legal guidelines. According to Delhi Police’s declare, Disha Ravi together with Mumbai lawyer Nikita Jacob and Pune engineer Shantanu created the “toolkit” and shared it with others to tarnish India’s picture. Police stated that it was Disha Ravi who despatched the “toolkit” to teen local weather activist Greta Thunberg via the Telegram app, and likewise “coaxed her to act on it”.
    READ MORE: BJP MP PC Mohan compares local weather activist Disha Ravi to Burhan Wani, Ajmal Kasab
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  • From local weather activist to ‘Toolkit Editor’, who’s Disha Ravi?

    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.

    ALSO READ | Disha Ravi began WhatsApp group, shared ‘toolkit doc’ with Greta: Delhi Police

    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.

    ALSO READ | Greta below assault for utilizing her ‘bully pulpit’ to wade into political points

    “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.

    ALSO READ | 21-year-old Bengaluru local weather activist arrested in Greta Thunberg toolkit case

    ALSO READ | Greta Thunberg’s new tweet after Delhi Police’s FIR, says ‘nonetheless stand with farmers’

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  • Disha Ravi began WhatsApp group, shared ‘toolkit doc’ with Greta: Delhi Police

    Image Source : INDIA TV Disha Ravi began WhatsApp group, shared ‘toolkit doc’ with Greta: Delhi Police
    A Cyber Cell workforce of the Delhi Police has arrested Disha Ravi, a 21-year-old local weather activist, from Bengaluru for being allegedly concerned in sharing the “toolkit” associated to the farmers’ protest on social media. She was picked up from her home for questioning on Saturday and later arrested for her alleged involvement in formulation and dissemination of the “toolkit Google doc”. 

    According to the Delhi Police, Disha had began a WhatsApp group and collaborated to make the “toolkit document”. They alleged that Disha shared the doc with teen local weather activist Greta Thunberg. 

    Meanwhile, the Delhi Police additionally acknowledged that Disha later requested Greta to take away the principle doc after its incriminating particulars by chance bought into public area. 

    “Disha Ravi, arrested by CyPAD Delhi Police, is an Editor of the Toolkit Google Doc & key conspirator in document’s formulation & dissemination. She started WhatsApp Group & collaborated to make the Toolkit doc. She worked closely with them to draft the Doc,” the Delhi Police stated in a sequence of tweets on Sunday. 

    “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. Later, she asked Greta to remove the main Doc after its incriminating details accidentally got into public domain. This is many times more than the 2 lines editing that she claims,” they stated. 

    The Cyber Cell had on February 4 lodged an FIR in opposition to “pro-Khalistan” creators of the “toolkit” for waging a “social, cultural and economic war against the Government of India”.

    The case in opposition to unnamed individuals was registered on prices of legal conspiracy, sedition and varied different sections of the Indian Penal Code, the police had stated.

    According to the police, the “toolkit” has a specific part that mentions “digital strike through hashtags on or before January 26, tweet storms on January 23 onwards, physical action on January 26 and watch-out or join farmers march into Delhi and back to borders”.

    The “toolkit” was geared toward spreading disaffection and ill-will in opposition to the federal government of India and creating disharmony amongst varied social, non secular and cultural teams, the police had added.

    READ MORE: 21-year-old Bengaluru activist arrested in Greta Thunberg toolkit case

    READ MORE: Greta Thunberg’s new tweet after Delhi Police’s FIR, says ‘nonetheless stand with farmers’

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