India
oi-Deepika S
New Delhi, February 16: Delhi police will write to Zoom, seeking details of Zoom’s meeting on the toolkit issue in relation to the January 26 violence.
Delhi police, investigating the January 26 violence, claimed there was a zoom meeting prior to Republic Day attended by Mo Dhaliwal of the Poetic Foundation for Justice, a pro-Khalistan group. Nikita, Disha and Shantanu also attended the meeting.
Police claimed that Disha Ravi, who was arrested on Saturday from Bengaluru, sent the “toolkit” to teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg via the Telegram app, and also “convinced her to act.”
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The data was also removed, police said, adding that Disha’s Telegram account shows that many links related to the “toolkit” were removed.
Thunberg had shared the “toolkit” to support farmers’ agitation against the three land reform laws. In the document, several urgent actions were listed, including creating a Twitter storm and protests in front of the Indian embassies, which were necessary to support the farmers’ protest.
The “toolkit” has been cited by some critics as “proof” of his conspiracy to stoke protests in India.
Earlier this month, Cyber Cell had filed an FIR against the “pro-Khalistan” creators of the “toolkit” for waging a “social, cultural and economic war against the Government of India.”
The case has been registered on charges of criminal conspiracy, sedition and various other sections of the Indian Penal Code.
“The email account created by Shantanu is the owner of this Google document,” said Nath, adding that “the founder of the Poetic Justice Foundation (PJF) of the pro-Khalistani group, Mo Dhaliwal, had contacted them through from a Canadian-based woman named Punit. “
Before the violence on Republic Day, which left 500 police officers injured and a protester dead, Nikita and Shantanu had attended a Zoom meeting organized by FSY on 11 January in which the modalities for creating the “box of tools “titled” Global Farmers Strike “and” World Action Day, January 26, “said Nath.
Toolkit tweeted by Thunberg aimed at a digital attack on India on January 26
“Nikita, Shantanu, Disha and others collaborated on the draft of the toolkit. Based on information gathered from Nikita and his device, various teams were sent to the Beed district of Maharashtra and to Bangalore. Shantanu was not found at his home in Beed and we are still looking for it, “he said.
Police said Disha, Shantanu and Nikita created and edited the “toolkit.” Disha, who is also associated with the environmental movement called ‘Fridays for Future’, “sent the toolkit to Greta Thunberg via the Telegram app and also convinced her to act on it.”
Disha Ravi was arrested in the presence of her mother, an officer from the Bengaluru Area Police Station (SHO).
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