Disha Ravi arrest: Advocates, farmer unions submit memorandum to Bommai, demand action against Delhi Police
The delegation also sought the home minister to issue directions to Bengaluru police to register a FIR against Anil Vij, Haryana minister for his hateful tweet against Disha Ravi, calling for her extermination.
FollowA delegation of advocates, farmers groups, workers unions and others met Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday morning and submitted a memorandum asking for action on the alleged criminal arrest of climate activist Disha Ravi by Delhi police.
The delegation also sought the home minister to issue directions to Bengaluru police to register a FIR against Anil Vij, Haryana minister for his hateful tweet against Disha Ravi, calling for her extermination.
The Haryana home minister, 67-year-old Anil Vij, took to Twitter against the 21-year-old environmental activist Disha Ravi, saying ‘anti-nationals like her should be destroyed from the roots’.
The activist was arrested from Bengaluru last Saturday by the Delhi Police for allegedly creating and sharing a protest toolkit backing the farmers' agitation against the Centre's new farm laws. Ravi along with Mumbai-based lawyer Nikita Jacob and Pune engineer Shantanu Muluk created the toolkit and shared it with others to tarnish India's image, the Delhi Police had claimed on Monday.
In a related development, the Delhi Commission for Women took suo moto cognizance of reports that Ravi was arrested in violation of her constitutional rights under Article 21 and also without obtaining a transit remand.
According to reports, the activist’s hurried transit in the absence of a transit remand and the remand order granting her five-day police custody highlights severe procedural violations in the state’s mandate of criminal administration of justice.
She also alleged that the arrest had been made by the Delhi Police in civil clothes; when they arrived in Bengaluru, they tracked her mobile phones for her location and then arrested her from her residence, allegedly without informing the family of the details.
A Delhi court had on February 14 sent Ravi to five-day police custody after the agency said her custodial interrogation was required to probe an alleged larger conspiracy against the government of India and to ascertain her alleged role relating to the Khalistan movement.
