Dismissing reports there were lapses in the arrest of climate activist Disha RaviDelhi Police Commissioner SN Shrivastava said Tuesday that her arrest was made in accordance with the law and that it does not differentiate between a 22-year-old and a 50-year-old.
“As for Disha’s arrest, it was done according to procedures. The law does not distinguish between a 22-year-old and a 50-year-old. She was brought before a court that sent her into police custody for five days. It is false when people say that there were lapses in the arrest, ”he was quoted by ANI.
The Delhi Police have also written to the Zoom video conferencing platform, seeking details of those who participated in the January 11 meeting allegedly organized by a pro-Khalistani group to prepare a protest “toolbox” backing the farmers’ agitation, authorities said.
Police allege that mumbai lawyer Nikita Jacob and Pune engineer Shantanu were among the 70 people who had attended the meeting via the Zoom app, days before the Republic Day Violence in the national capital that left more than 500 police officers injured and one protester dead.
“The Delhi Police have written to the Zoom video conferencing app to seek details of the participants who attended the meeting on January 11,” the official said.
Joint Police Commissioner (Cyber) Prem Nath said: “On January 11, Nikita and Shantanu attended a Zoom meeting hosted by FSY where modalities were decided to create the ‘toolkit’ entitled ‘Global Strike of Farmers’ and ‘Global Day of Action, January 26’ ”.
The data was also removed, police claimed, adding that Ravi’s Telegram account shows that many links related to the toolkit were removed. Warrants of arrest without bail have been issued against Jacob and Shantanu.
(With PTI inputs)
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