On Tuesday, the Bombay High Court reserved an order on an application for advance traffic bond filed by lawyer and climate activist Nikita Jacob after Delhi Police Issued Arrest Warrants Without Bail against her and Shantanu Muluk, an engineer. The court will issue the order on February 17.
On Mukul’s appeal, filed in the Aurangabad court of the Bombay High Court, a sole magistrate of Judge Vibha V Kankanwadi granted him advance transit bond and approved an order granting him a 10-day bond period so that he go to the competent court. looking for relays.
According to Delhi police, the duo together with 22-year-old Bengaluru resident Disha Ravi allegedly created the “toolbox” document on the farmers’ protest that touched on “pro-Khalistani elements.” This document was also shared on social media by Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Jacob had appealed for provisional protection against coercive measures taken by the Delhi Police. His statement, filed on February 12, says that the Delhi Police Cyber Cell, accompanied by staff from the Vanrai Police Station in Goregaon (East) in Mumbai, had arrived at his home with a search warrant and confiscated personal documents and electronic devices. “The applicant has no religious, political or financial motive or agenda to research, discuss, edit and distribute communication packages / toolkits to raise awareness, let alone incite violence, riot and / or cause other physical harm “the statement reads.
While Jacob’s guilty plea was filed at HC’s main headquarters in Mumbai, Muluk, who hails from central Maharashtra, filed his application in the Aurangabad High Court court.
Both grounds requested an advance transit bond for a period of four weeks so that they can go to the relevant court in Delhi to request the pre-arrest bond. The allegations also denounced the “political vendetta” involved in their arrests.
Mukul’s request said that vendetta has leaked from politics to the home of a common man who flouts the rights and principles enshrined in the Indian Constitution.
Jacob and Mukul are the latest to be associated with the “toolkit” case. Before them, Disha Ravi, a 21-year-old climate activist from Bengaluru was arrested with the Delhi police claiming that Ravi was a “key conspirator” in formulating and disseminating the document and that he collaborated with the Poetic Justice Foundation for -Khalisatani for “Spreading discontent against the Indian state.”
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