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Toolkit case: Delhi court to hear Nikita Jacob, Shantanu Muluk s anticipatory bail plea today
Nikita Jacob and Shantanu Muluk have been accused in a toolkit case along with Bengaluru-based Disha Ravi
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court will on Tuesday hear the anticipatory bail pleas of activists Nikita Jacob and Shantanu Muluk, who have been accused in a toolkit case along with Bengaluru-based Disha Ravi.
The case involves the creation and sharing of a
controversial toolkit - an online document - in support of the ongoing farmers protest against farm laws. On March 2, Additional session judge Dharmera Rana had given the Delhi Police a week s time to file a detailed response on Jacob s plea and posted the matter for hearing today.
In a setback to the Delhi police, a city court on Tuesday granted bail to climate activist Disha Ravi, arrested for sedition for allegedly sharing a toolkit related to the farmers protest on social media, holding that evidence on record was not sufficient to keep a 22-year-old young lady with absolutely no criminal antecedents in custody. The offence of sedition cannot be invoked to minister to the wounded vanity of the governments, said Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana, and opined that citizens are conscience keepers of government in any democratic nation and they cannot be put behind the bars simply because they choose to disagree with the State policies.