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Students protest outside the Delhi Police headquarters demanding the immediate release of Disha Ravi on Tuesday. [Photo/ANI]
Students in Delhi, Bengaluru protest demanding immediate release of Disha Ravi ANI | Updated: Feb 16, 2021 15:26 IST
New Delhi/Bengaluru [India], February 16 (ANI): Students in Delhi and Bengaluru held protests against the arrest of 21-year-old Disha Ravi and demanded her immediate release.
Student activists of All India Students Association (AISA) were on Tuesday seen protesting outside the Delhi Police headquarters demanding the immediate release of arrested climate activist Disha Ravi.
AISA activists were seen protesting with placards amid slogans of Inquilab Zindabad and Disha Ravi ko riha karo on Tuesday.
Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest against the arrest of climate activist Disha Ravi by Delhi Police in the toolkit case, outside the Delhi Police headquarters, in New Delhi on Tuesday.
NEW DELHI: The farmers protesting against the three central farm laws on the Delhi borders on Tuesday decided to organise meetings in poll-bound West Bengal to ask people not to vote for those who were “snatching their livelihood”. In another related development, a Delhi court directed the Delhi Police to hand over FIR copies of arrest and other documents of climate activist Disha Ravi to her.
Here are the key developments:
Delhi Police defends Disha Ravi s arrest in toolkit case, seeks info from Zoom, WhatsApp | Top Developments
Environmental activist Disha Ravi, lawyer Nikita Jacob and engineer Shantanu Muluk have been booked by Delhi Police in connection with the ‘toolkit’ case.
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UPDATED: February 17, 2021 00:32 IST
Environmental activist Disha Ravi is in Delhi Police custody (Illustration by Rahul Gupta for India Today)
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Nikita Jacob and Shantanu Muluk in their pleas alleged they were targets of political vendetta
Delhi Police is likely to approach WhatsApp seeking details of International Farmers Strike group created in December last year
Disha Ravi, the environmental activist from Bengaluru, was arrested in accordance with the law, the Delhi Police said on Tuesday. At the same time, the Bombay High Court granted a 10-day transit anticipatory bail to Shantanu Muluk, a co-accused in the toolkit case along with Disha Ravi and Nikita Jacob.
The Delhi Police on Tuesday defended the arrest of activist Disha Ravi in the toolkit case, asserting it has acted in accordance with the law, even as another suspect Shantanu Muluk was granted a 10-day pre-arrest bail by the Bombay High Court. Intensifying its probe, the police have sought details from video conferencing platform Zoom about a January 11 meeting by a pro-Khalistan group on the controversial toolkit backing the farmers stir that has been cited by critics as proof of a conspiracy to fuel protests in India. Ravi, who was on Sunday sent to a five-day police custody after being arrested in Bengaluru for allegedly creating the toolkit, was allowed by a Delhi court on Tuesday to speak with her family members over the phone for 15 minutes a day and meet her lawyer for 30 minutes a day.