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  • Toolkit case: Delhi HC dismisses Disha Ravi’s plea to switch bail situation

    By PTI

    New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea by local weather activist Disha Ravi, who’s dealing with prosecution for her alleged involvement in sharing a toolkit backing the farmers’ protest in 2021, looking for modification the bail situation the place she wants prior permission of the trial courtroom earlier than travelling overseas.

    Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma stated there is no such thing as a floor for interference with the trial courtroom’s order.

    Ravi’s counsel had urged the excessive courtroom to switch the situation to the extent that she shall intimate the trial courtroom earlier than going overseas.

    The detailed order might be made accessible later.

    The excessive courtroom had on August 21 reserved its order on the plea.

    Ravi was arrested by the Delhi Police on February 13, 2021, for allegedly being concerned in sharing on social media a toolkit associated to the farmers’ protest, which was then occurring towards the Centre’s three farm legal guidelines, and was granted bail by a trial courtroom right here on February 23, 2021.

    The trial courtroom had imposed numerous situations on her, together with that she shall not go away the nation with out prior permission of the courtroom.

    Ravi, in her plea earlier than the excessive courtroom, has sought modification of the bail situation that she ought to take prior permission from the trial courtroom to journey overseas.

    “I need to travel abroad frequently and on short notice. I have already travelled abroad three times after passing of the bail order and even an LOC has been issued against me. The bail condition of taking prior permission of the trial court is causing me inconvenience. I have not violated any of the bail conditions,” Ravi’s counsel had argued on her behalf.

    However, the state’s counsel had opposed the plea, saying that merely as a result of the situation is discovered inconvenient by her, it can’t be a floor for modification.

    Ravi has challenged a trial courtroom’s August 9 order by which her plea to switch the bail situation was dismissed.

    The trial courtroom choose had stated, “The investigating company has defined that the offences being investigated contain suspected individuals who’re based mostly in a number of overseas nations and the investigating company is within the strategy of amassing necessary proof in respect of those suspects from the related businesses and intermediaries.

    “Hence I am also of the opinion that the modification of condition(as sought) at this stage would be detrimental for the investigation.”

    Ravi was arrested from Bengaluru on February 13, 2021 by a Cyber Cell staff of Delhi Police.

    New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea by local weather activist Disha Ravi, who’s dealing with prosecution for her alleged involvement in sharing a toolkit backing the farmers’ protest in 2021, looking for modification the bail situation the place she wants prior permission of the trial courtroom earlier than travelling overseas.

    Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma stated there is no such thing as a floor for interference with the trial courtroom’s order.

    Ravi’s counsel had urged the excessive courtroom to switch the situation to the extent that she shall intimate the trial courtroom earlier than going overseas.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );

    The detailed order might be made accessible later.

    The excessive courtroom had on August 21 reserved its order on the plea.

    Ravi was arrested by the Delhi Police on February 13, 2021, for allegedly being concerned in sharing on social media a toolkit associated to the farmers’ protest, which was then occurring towards the Centre’s three farm legal guidelines, and was granted bail by a trial courtroom right here on February 23, 2021.

    The trial courtroom had imposed numerous situations on her, together with that she shall not go away the nation with out prior permission of the courtroom.

    Ravi, in her plea earlier than the excessive courtroom, has sought modification of the bail situation that she ought to take prior permission from the trial courtroom to journey overseas.

    “I need to travel abroad frequently and on short notice. I have already travelled abroad three times after passing of the bail order and even an LOC has been issued against me. The bail condition of taking prior permission of the trial court is causing me inconvenience. I have not violated any of the bail conditions,” Ravi’s counsel had argued on her behalf.

    However, the state’s counsel had opposed the plea, saying that merely as a result of the situation is discovered inconvenient by her, it can’t be a floor for modification.

    Ravi has challenged a trial courtroom’s August 9 order by which her plea to switch the bail situation was dismissed.

    The trial courtroom choose had stated, “The investigating company has defined that the offences being investigated contain suspected individuals who’re based mostly in a number of overseas nations and the investigating company is within the strategy of amassing necessary proof in respect of those suspects from the related businesses and intermediaries.

    “Hence I am also of the opinion that the modification of condition(as sought) at this stage would be detrimental for the investigation.”

    Ravi was arrested from Bengaluru on February 13, 2021 by a Cyber Cell staff of Delhi Police.

  • Trouble over toolkit continues, Bhupesh Baghel mentioned – ‘Sangh initiation is not going to work now’

    BJP and Congress are continuously nose to nose on the ‘toolkit’ within the state. Both are continuously attacking one another. Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has now focused Raman Singh and the RSS by tweeting. CM Baghel tweeted that ‘Sanch Ko Aanch Nahin’ Twitter has described Raman Singh’s alleged toolkit as manipulated media. He has written that ‘Lying a thousand instances makes a lie come true, such union schooling will not work’. Explain that there’s an ongoing dispute between the BJP-Congress over the toolkit throughout the nation.

  • Indian High Commission points open letter to British MP on farmer protests

    Image Source : @CLAUDIAWEBBE Claudia Webbe is the member of Parliament from the Opposition Labour Party for Leicester East, a major British Indian constituency in jap England.
    The Indian High Commission in London has issued an open letter to a British member of Parliament who has been vocal over the problem of farmer protests in India and associated arrests of activists.

    Claudia Webbe is the member of Parliament from the Opposition Labour Party for Leicester East, a major British Indian constituency in jap England.

    She had endorsed an e-petition calling for a UK authorities assertion over the protests in India, after it crossed the 100,000 signatures threshold to be thought-about for a debate within the Westminster Hall of the House of Commons. Most lately, she used her social media to demand the discharge of activists arrested in India within the “toolkit” case.

    Climate activist Disha Ravi was arrested from Bengaluru on Saturday and despatched to police remand for 5 days by a Delhi courtroom with officers claiming she was an editor of the “toolkit Google doc” and “key conspirator” in its formulation and dissemination.

    Non-bailable warrants had been additionally issued in opposition to lawyer Nikita Jacob and engineer Shantanu for making a protest toolkit together with Ravi backing the farmers’ agitation with the purpose of “tarnishing the image of India” and collaborating with pro-Khalistani parts.

    The Indian mission responded with an open letter on Monday night, inviting her to convey any apprehensions on behalf of the British residents of her constituency to the High Commission straight.

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    “We would have been able to comprehensively and in detail provide clarifications to assuage the concerns of your constituents with regard to the recent path-breaking Indian Farm Laws against which a small section of India’s farming community has been protesting,” reads the letter.

    “It is emphasised that the reforms, meant to guard and empower farmers in India are primarily based on inputs from specialists and proposals by Committees which have analysed the particular challenges of the agricultural sector in India over the past 20 years.

    “The Farm Acts had been duly mentioned and debated within the Parliament of India and their advantages have began reaching greater than 100 million small farmers immediately. Since the enactment of those reforms, discussions have been held with farmers and different stakeholders on their environment friendly implementation,” it provides.

    The letter states that the detailed data is being shared together with her to dispel any misgivings with regard to the targets of the reforms, the power of these having reservations to protest peacefully and the willingness of the federal government of India to handle all considerations in a way most acceptable to the protesting farmers’ unions.

    “The efforts continue – but government of India is more than aware of efforts by vested interests abroad to fuel the protests through misinformation and incendiary assertions that are not helpful in progressing the dialogue between the protesters and government or addressing the issues through the democratic processes that our people have traditionally relied on,” it notes.

    “High Commission of India would, therefore, reiterate its offer that your constituents – British citizens having family ties or business linkages with the agricultural sector in India – would be most welcome to address their concerns to the High Commission of India through their representatives, after duly studying the clarifications issued by our mission on our website and through social media,” it provides.

    The letter reiterates that farmers taking part within the protest rallies have been handled with “utmost respect and restraint” by the federal government and safety forces – “more than may have been the case in similar situations elsewhere in the world”.

    The letter can be appended with a factsheet laying out additional particulars and the consultations and a number of rounds of talks held in relation to the brand new agricultural reforms.

    Thousands of farmers, primarily from Punjab and Haryana, have been tenting at a number of Delhi border factors since November final 12 months, demanding the federal government to repeal three farm legal guidelines and supply them authorized assure of minimal assist worth (MSP) for his or her crops.

    Multiple rounds of talks between the federal government and farmer unions haven’t been capable of resolve the impasse.

    India has emphasised that the protests by farmers have to be seen within the context of India’s democratic ethos and polity and the Ministry of External Affairs stated that some vested curiosity teams have tried to mobilise worldwide assist in opposition to the nation.

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  • Tookit case: Disha Ravi’s arrest made in accordance with regulation, says Delhi Police chief

    Image Source : PTI Delhi Police Commissioner S N Shrivastava
    Delhi Police Commissioner S N Shrivastava on Tuesday mentioned the arrest of local weather activist Disha Ravi was made in accordance with the regulation which “doesn’t differentiate between a 22-year-old or 50-year-old”. Talking to reporters at an occasion right here, Shrivastava mentioned it’s incorrect when folks say that there have been lapses within the arrest of the 22-year-old activist.
    Ravi was arrested from Bengaluru on Saturday in reference to a protest toolkit backing the farmers’ agitation.
    Police claimed that she had despatched the toolkit to teen local weather activist Greta Thunberg by way of the Telegram app, and in addition “coaxed her to act on it”.
    “Disha Ravi’s arrest has been made in accordance with the law which doesn’t differentiate between a 22-year-old or a 50-year-old,” the Delhi Police chief mentioned.

    He mentioned Ravi has been despatched to five-day police custody and the matter was being probed.
    Ravi together with Mumbai lawyer Nikita Jacob and Pune engineer Shantanu created the toolkit and shared it with others to tarnish India’s picture, the Delhi Police had mentioned on Monday.
    The knowledge was additionally deleted, police claimed, including that Ravi’s Telegram account reveals many hyperlinks associated to the toolkit had been eliminated.
    Non-bailable warrants have been issued towards Jacob and Shantanu. 
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  • Meet Pieter Friedrich, Greta’s useful resource particular person with Khalistan, ISI hyperlinks

    Image Source : PTI Greta Thunberg
    The “toolkit” posted by Greta Thunberg had a “foreign expert” as a useful resource particular person. This identify was additionally central to an OSINT investigation relating to info-war in opposition to India – Pieter Friedrich, in accordance with a report by The Disinfolab.
    The report titled “THE UN-ENDING WAR: From Proxy War to Info-War against India”, notes that it seems, it was an elaborate design, that was underplayed since 2007. It concerned a slew of shady firms within the US, pretend overseas consultants, and even ghost entities.
    The linkages of the mastermind might be traced again to a serious terror plot hatched in opposition to India within the Nineteen Nineties in collusion with ISI.
    While taking the quilt of Khalistan, the community works for Pakistani pursuits. The key gamers on the scene throughout the 1990 bombing plans are nonetheless round and related.
    The community was focusing on Indian pursuits on a worldwide scale, together with even Indian origin American politicians.
    The story additionally decodes how a number of the most prolific and influential folks in India – from media to journalists and intellectuals – offered a nourishing eco-system to the community in damaging Indian pursuits, as per Disinfolab.
    Disinfolab stated the identify of one of many key gamers of their story got here up within the toolkit dropped by chance by Thunberg. The toolkit had talked about a overseas professional as a useful resource level – Pieter Friedrich. It was startling. “Pieter was part of a story we were already working on since about a month in the context of info-war against India,” it stated.

    The report notes that Info-War/psy-war is likely one of the fanciest dialogue subjects. “Yet, the consciousness about its gravity and impact in India doesn’t seem to be registering even with major stake-holders. Though we did expect it to be an elaborate design against India, their reach and depth within India and the impunity with which it was operating shocked us,” it stated.
    The story goes far again into the previous. During the turmoil of the Nineteen Eighties, a hitherto unknown Khalistani Bhajan Singh Bhinder @Iqbal Choudhary seems on the scene. He claimed his origins from Malaysia, and was working from the US. He was primarily funding the phobia community for finishing up large-scale violence in varied cities in India by way of one other terrorist Lal Singh with the assistance of Pakistan’s ISI. Indian escaped the assault by a whisker when Lal Singh bought arrested from Dadar railway station. Bhinder was ultimately additionally put in India’s Black-list until 2011, the report stated.
    The assaults had been half of a bigger conspiracy referred to as Okay-2 (Kashmir – Khalistan) which was hatched in Lahore underneath the patronage of Amir ul Azeem, the then Secretary of Jamaat–e-Islami, and being supported by a number of Pakistani institution gamers together with Choudhary Altaf Hussain, ultimately Governor of Punjab (Pakistan) and uncle of current S&T Minister of Pakistan Fawad Chaudhary.
    At the identical time, whereas within the US, Bhinder and his gang was additionally concerned in a serious trans-national drug trafficking community, and a DVD piracy community. In order to fund their drug community, they managed to take management of one of the vital outstanding Gurudwaras within the US (Fremont Gurudwara), after a bloody struggle inside it. Fremont receives tens of millions of {dollars} in contribution from devotees yearly.
    The report stated that every one this whereas Bhinder has additionally been making an attempt to obtain weapons to be despatched to India by way of Pakistan. His quest of arms nearly bought him within the police web within the US. An investigation by DEA Special Agent Tim Lum reveals that Bhinder was on the lookout for large firepower to be despatched to India. The deal nevertheless didn’t materialise, as Bhinder bought suspicious in regards to the Agent. It was an in depth name for Bhinder.
    It added that with change of millennium, Bhinder additionally modified his strategies. In early 2000, after the efforts to ship weapons to India failed, and with new media and on-line platforms mushrooming, Bhinder (or the masterminds behind him) determined to shift focus in the direction of launching an info-war in opposition to India. To this finish, he plans to arrange flimsy organisation and scouts for an acceptable ‘white face’, who might be used because the face for the info-war operations.
    “By 2006-7 Bhinder finds a young Christian Missionary Pieter Freidrich, who seemed to have a decent oratory and writing skills but was still wanting in terms of economic means. Pieter was even willing to work as a security guard, and hence the offer to become an ‘expert-activist’ would have been quite lucrative to refuse. Pieter came on board and finds a new role as an anti-Gandhi crusader,” the report stated.
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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.

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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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  • Farmers protest: Delhi Police writes to Google, seeks knowledge on ‘toolkit’ after R-Day violence

    Image Source : PTI Farmers hoist flags on the Red Fort in the course of the Kisan Gantantra Parade on January 26 amid the 72nd Republic Day celebrations, in New Delhi.
    The Delhi Police on Friday wrote to Google searching for particulars of the ‘toolkit’ doc that was shared on social media relating to the farmers protest, ANI reported. The police have approached a number of platforms searching for registration particulars and exercise log of the account by way of which the doc was uploaded.

    Details of e mail IDs, one Instagram account, and one URL have additionally been sought by the Delhi Police. Investigating the ‘toolkit doc’ uploaded on a social media deal with, the Delhi Police consider it scripted the January 26 violence within the capital.

    Over 300 social media handles below scanner after R-Day violence

    Over 300 social media handles are additionally below scanner. This means the Delhi Police have a brand new entrance to deal with now, the digital social media accounts and the probe has gone ‘International’.

    “The intention of the creators of the tool kits appears to create disharmony among various social, religious and cultural groups and encourage disaffection and ill-will against the government of India. It also aims at waging social cultural and economic war against India,” Delhi police stated in a press release.

    Preliminary enquiry has revealed that the ‘toolkit’ in query seems to have been created by a pro-Khalistani Organisation “Poetic Justice Foundation”.

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    “A section of the documents titled “prior motion” delineates the following action plan, digital strike-through hashtags on or before 26th January, Tweets storm 23rd January onwards, Physical action on 26th January, Watch-out or join farmers’ march into Delhi and back to borders,” it stated.

    R-Day occasions copycat execution of the toolkit motion plan, belives Delhi Police 

    The police consider that the unfolding of occasions previous few days together with the violence of twenty sixth January has revealed copycat execution of the ‘motion plan’ detailed within the toolkit.

    Though the Delhi police consider it to be an “international conspiracy” to defame the nation it shunned naming anybody into the FIR registered below sections 124-A, 153-A, 153 and 120-B IPC and could be investigated by the Cyber Cell.

    This signifies that the Cyber Cell of Delhi Police which is already investigating varied social media handles throughout the county for January 26 violence from posting pretend or malicious info to violent posts has now expanded its attain and has a further duty of tackling the overseas handles on Twitter and Facebook.

    (With inputs from IANS)

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