Toolkit case: Climate activist Disha Ravi granted bail by Delhi court
Disha Ravi was arrested in connection with allegedly being involved in sharing a toolkit on social media related to the farmers protest. Photo: IANS
Updated: Feb 23, 2021, 04:30 PM IST
Disha Ravi, the 21-year-old climate activist, who was arrested in connection with allegedly being involved in sharing a toolkit on social media related to the farmers protest, was granted bail by a Delhi court on Tuesday (February 23).
Additional Sessions Judge Dharmendra Rana allowed the bail to the accused on the condition of two surety of Rs 1 lakh each.
The Delhi police had on Saturday (February 20) said the court that the Toolkit was a sinister design to defame India and cause violence. Hearing of Disha s bail plea had continued for three long hours.
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Earlier it was reported that the ‘toolkit’ document was shared by the Swedish climate activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Greta Thunberg. She shared the document and stood in solidarity with the farmers protest. The toolkit case became a serious matter with at least 3 accused including Disha Ravi, arrested.
The title of the toolkit was #ASKINDIAWHY Global Farmers Strike First Wave Will you be part of the largest protest in Human History? and it shared methods through which one can participate in the farmers protest.
After a few hours of the document being shared by Thunberg, she deleted her post as people starting objecting to it. Later she shared an updated document on her social media handle and contents of the document were to help people show support.
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Climate activist Disha Ravi walks outside a court in New Delhi.
The Delhi Police on Saturday informed a city court that Disha Ravi, who is under judicial custody in the toolkit case over farmers protest, was part of Indian chapter of global conspiracy to defame India, create unrest in the garb of farmers protest, PTI reported.
During the hearing on Ravi s bail plea today, the Delhi Police also informed court that the toolkit conspiracy was a sinister design to defame India and trigger violence, for which Poetic Justice Foundation and banned organisation Sikhs For Justice used climate activist Disha Ravi.
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Disha Ravi, a 21 year-old climate activist from Bengaluru
Delhi Police have claimed that the arrest of Disha Ravi, a climate activist from Bengaluru, was in accordance with the law. The Bombay High Court, however, granted a 10-day transit anticipatory bail to Shantanu Muluk, a co-accused in the Greta Thunberg toolkit case along with Disha Ravi and a Mumbai-based lawyer Nikita Jacob.
The Bombay HC s Mumbai bench reserved its verdict on Jacob s bail plea till Wednesday. Her lawyer Mihir Desai argued that the toolkit did not have any reference to the instances of violence that unfolded in the national capital on January 26.