Bengaluru protest calls for Disha launch: Govt ought to see motive

THE BJP authorities on the Centre should see motive and transfer to launch 22-year-old local weather activist Disha Ravi, who has been arrested by Delhi Police within the toolkit case, historian and creator Ramachandra Guha mentioned at a protest held in Bengaluru by varied teams.
“What is the message we want to send the world – that we do not want a young girl to express her views? What is the future we want for our country – one of conformism, obedience, cult of personality? It is really awful. It is good that there are protests. This government should see reason and must release not just her but all such prisoners immediately,” Guha mentioned on the protest held by a bunch of round 100 folks, largely college students.
Guha, who has been probably the most distinguished of protesters in Bengaluru on points such because the Citizenship Amendment Act, participated briefly within the protest on Monday. “Students standing for farmers, for environmental protection, for democracy, for human rights are targeted. It is kind of a Chinese model. This kind of repression is much worse than anything seen since the emergency,” he mentioned.

“If you feel that she has said something then she can be called in and spoken to but to arrest her, keep her in custody and charge sedition cases is worse than the colonial regime,” he mentioned.
Students from the All India Students Association and schools in Bengaluru held placards calling the arrest of the 22-year-old activist a “conspiracy against democracy”.
The United Federation of Karnataka’s Farmers-Workers-Dalits Pro-Peoples Organizations in a press release condemned the arrest and mentioned that youths who’re within the surroundings motion are likely to assist the farmers’ protests as a result of each contain the way forward for our nation.
“It has to be questioned as to how a girl residing in Karnataka could be permitted to be arrested by the Delhi Police,” mentioned Vinay Sreenivas, an advocate for the federation.
Police in Bengaluru, nevertheless, mentioned an individual must be produced earlier than an area Justice of the Peace on the place of arrest provided that the individual can’t be produced within the court docket that issued an arrest warrant inside 24 hours of the arrest. The police claimed that Delhi Police instructed the jurisdictional police after Disha Ravi was detained and simply earlier than she was flown to Delhi.
“There are different kinds of cases. There’s nothing called protocol. We also go and arrest so many people from outside our state. The question is not that. The case was lodged in the national capital and Delhi Police acted on certain evidence,” Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai mentioned.

“This is a warning to the youths in the country that there is a situation worse than the emergency,” KPCC chief D Okay Shivakumar mentioned.