![]() Disha Ravi had asked the Swedish environmental activist to delete her post fearing action under the stringent law UAPA as her name was mentioned in the document. Greta Thunberg tweets again on farmers protest, shares toolkit for helping the agitation This story is from FebruTIMESOFINDIA. 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. ![]() Disha also deleted a WhatsApp group which she created to spread the toolkit. The pro-farmers protest toolkit grabbed Indian eyeballs after Swedish activist Greta Thunberg shared its link in a tweet on February 4. On Monday, they issued non-bailable warrants for lawyer-activist Nikita Jacob and a climate activist named Shantanu on similar charges. It sprang from the climate strike movement in school that Greta Thunberg began in 2018. On Sunday, the Delhi police arrested Disha Ravi, 21, for sharing and editing a toolkit put out by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg to mobilise support for the ongoing farmer protests in India. The campaign is aimed at creating climate-related awareness and the dangers of global warming. Disha sent the toolkit to Greta Thunberg through the Telegram app. Disha Ravi is a Bengaluru-based climate activist, who is a founder-membr of the Fridays for Future (FFF) campaign in India. "Delhi Police's actions are all the more sinister because the 21-year old was taken to Delhi from Bengaluru with no disclosure about her whereabouts, not even to her parents.this action against an individual without following the due process of law, and in clear violation of norms for arrests and detentions laid down by the Supreme Court, reflects absolute contempt for constitutional principles," the statement, signed by noted personalities like AC Michael, former of Delhi Minorities Commission, singer TM Krishna, Arundhati Ghosh, said.ĭisha Ravi was "picked up" from her house in Soladevanahalli area of Bengaluru by a Cyber Cell team of the Delhi Police for questioning and later arrested for her alleged involvement in formulation and dissemination of the "toolkit". According to Delhi Police, Disha Ravi had panicked after Greta Thunberg shared the toolkit on farmers protest on Twitter, which triggered a political storm in the country. The document called attention to farmer suicides in India, lack of structural support and absence of solutions to these deeply-rooted problems.
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