New Delhi, Feb 15 : Elaborating on the ‘Toolkit’ investigation, the Delhi Police on Monday said that on January 11, Nikita and Shantanu attended a virtual Zoom meeting organised by the Poetic Justice Foundation in which the modalities of the ‘Global Day of Action’ were worked out and based on the course of action decided in the meeting, Nikita Jacob, Shantanu, and Disha Ravi and others collaborated together to draft the ‘Toolkit’ document.
The document that they drafted had secessionist and pro-Khalistan content embedded into it through links and texts, the police said.
The Delhi Police has already got non-bailable warrants issued against Mumbai-based lawyer-activist Nikita Jacob and engineer Shantanu who the police say are key figures along with Benguluru-based climate activist Disha Ravi, in drafting the ‘Toolkit’.
During the investigation, many screenshots of this document available on open source were investigated by Delhi Police’s Cyber Cell.
“The main aim of the ‘toolkit’ was to create misinformation and disaffection against the lawfully enacted legislations. The ‘toolkit’ sought to artificially amplify the fake news and other falsehoods and also sought to precipitate action on January 26, India’s Republic Day,” said Joint CP Cyber cell Prem Nath.
Based on incriminating evidence collected from Disha’s device and in view of the fact that she has deleted her WhatsApp group, she was arrested in the case, the police said.
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