After Disha Ravi, Delhi Police Intensifies Hunt to Arrest Lawyer-Activist Nikita Jacob in ‘Toolkit’ Case

After arresting 21-year-old Bengaluru activist, Delhi police on Monday issued a warrant against Bombay High Court lawyer Nikita Jacob who, they said, was involved in creating the toolkit that was ultimately shared by environmental activist Greta Thunburg on Twitter. Besides Jacob, police is also looking out for another activist Shantanu.

The toolkit tweeted by Thunberg sought to lay down different ways people could participate in the ongoing farmers’ protest. The first one included references to “tweet storms” on or before Republic Day, and protests around Indian missions. She deleted this version before uploading another one, saying the earlier document was “outdated”.

Ravi was arrested from Bengaluru by a Cyber Cell team of the Delhi Police on Saturday for allegedly sharing with Swedish teen campaigner the “toolkit” related to the farmers’ protest against the Centre’s three agri laws. The police claimed Ravi was an editor of the “toolkit Google doc” and a “key conspirator” in the document’s formulation and dissemination. She and others “collaborated with pro-Khalistani Poetic Justice Foundation to spread disaffection against the Indian State”, police alleged. At a mahapanchayat held at Indri in Karnal district of Haryana, SKM leaders warned that the BJP’s days are “numbered as more and more farmers are getting awakened”.