NEW DELHI: Bengaluru-based climate activist Disha Ravi played a key role in spreading the “toolkit” in support of the farmers protest and even started a WhatsApp group to create the document, the Delhi Police claimed on Sunday.
Disha, 21, was arrested by the police on Saturday in connection with the probe into the toolkit which has been shared by teen climate activist Greta Thunberg and others on Twitter.
The police told the court that Disha, along with others, also collaborated with pro-Khalistani outfit Poetic Justice Foundation to spread disaffection against the Indian state.
“Disha Ravi is an Editor of the Toolkit Google Doc and key conspirator in document’s formulation as well as dissemination. She started a WhatsApp group and collaborated to make the Toolkit doc. She worked closely with them to draft the document,” the police said.
Rebutting Disha’s claim that she edited just two lines of the toolkit, police said the activist was the one who shared the document with Thunberg.
” … she (Disha Ravi) asked Greta to remove the main Doc after its incriminating details accidentally got into public domain. This is many times more than the two lines editing that she claims,” it told the court.
According to ANI, Disha broke down in the courtroom during the hearing and told the judge that she edited only two lines of the documented and wanted to support the farmers agitation.
The court later sent Disha to five-day police custody.
Ravi, who is a graduate in Bachelor of Business Administration from a private college in Bengaluru, is one of the founding members of a group named ‘Fridays For Future India’.
The Delhi Police Cyber Cell had on February 4 lodged an FIR against “pro-Khalistan” creators of the “toolkit” for waging a “social, cultural and economic war against the Government of India”.
The case against unnamed people was registered on charges of criminal conspiracy, sedition and various other sections of the Indian Penal Code, the police had said.
Addressing a press conference earlier, a senior Delhi Police officer had said initial investigation linked the document with a pro-Khalistan group named “Poetic Justice Foundation”.
According to the police, the “toolkit” has a particular section 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”. (Time of India)
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