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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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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.
28 Jan 2021
India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed a Mumbai High Court order that acquitted a man accused of molestation and ruled that groping a minor’s breast without “skin-to-skin contact” does not constitute sexual assault.
“A bench of Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde and Justices A.S. Bopanna and V. Ramasubramanian stayed the high court order after Attorney General K.K. Venugopal mentioned the matter,” Indian news site The Wire reported on January 27.
The Nagpur bench of the Mumbai High Court ruled on January 24 that “there must be a ‘skin-to-skin contact’ with sexual intent, and mere groping is not sufficient [