After the arrest of 21-year-old Disha Ravi, a Delhi court has issued non-bailable warrants against activists Nikita Jacob and Shantanu in connection with Delhi Police’s interrogation into the toolkit case. The arrest warrant against activist-lawyer Nikita Jacob came hours after 21-year-old climate activist Disha Ravi was remanded to five-day Delhi Police Special Cell custody.
Meanwhile, the Delhi Police on Monday also alleged that climate activist Disha Ravi along with two other suspects Nikita Jacob and Shantanu created the "toolkit" document related to the farmers' protest and shared it on social media.
Addressing a press conference, Prem Nath, the Joint Commissioner of Police, Cyber Unit of Delhi Police said that Disha, Shantanu and Nikita created and edited the toolkit.
"Disha sent the toolkit to Greta Thunberg through the Telegram app. Disha deleted a whatsapp group which she created to spread the toolkit. Due procedure was followed during Disha's arrest," he said.
"Shantanu attended a zoom meeting organised by 'pro-khalistani' group Poetic Justice Foundation (PJF) and Jacob was also one of the editors of toolkit document," said the Joint CP.
Ravi was sent to five days police remand on Sunday by a Delhi court here. Meanwhile, police teams are conducting raids in Mumbai and other places to nab the duo.
The Delhi Police had on Sunday claimed that Ravi was an editor of the "toolkit Google doc" and "key conspirator" in the document's formulation and dissemination.
"She was the one who shared the toolkit doc with Greta Thunberg," the Delhi Police claimed in a tweet.
Thunberg, a teen climate activist, had shared the "toolkit" to lend her support to the farmers' agitation against the three agri laws.
In the document, various urgent actions, including creating a Twitter storm and protesting outside Indian embassies, were listed which were needed to be taken to support the farmers' protest.
The toolkit has been cited by some critics as a "proof" of her conspiracy to fuel protests in India.
The police on Sunday told the court that her custody was required to probe an alleged larger conspiracy against the government of India and to ascertain her alleged role relating to the Khalistan movement.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has called Ravi's arrest “unprecedented attack on democracy” while the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), which is leading the farmers' protest at Delhi's borders, too condemned the activist's arrest and demanded her immediate release.
Thousands of farmers protesting the Centre's new agri laws had clashed with the police during their tractor parade on January 26.
Over 500 police security personnel were injured while one protestors died during the Republic Day violence.
Earlier, the Delhi Police had asked Google and some social media giants to provide information about e-mail id, URLs and certain social media accounts related to the creators of the "toolkit" shared by Thunberg and others on Twitter in connection with the farmers' protest.