Toolkit case: Advocate Nikita Jacob strikes Bombay HC for transit bail

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Advocate Nikita Jacob, a suspect in a case registered by Delhi police in reference to the “toolkit” shared by local weather activist Greta Thunberg over the continued farmers’ protest, on Monday approached the Bombay High Court searching for transit anticipatory bail.
A Delhi courtroom has issued a non-bailable warrant towards Jacob and one other accused within the case. According to Delhi police, the duo was allegedly concerned in making ready the doc and was in direct contact with “pro-Khalistani elements”.
Jacob’s plea searching for pressing listening to was talked about earlier than the Bombay High Court’s single bench of Justice PD Naik on Monday. The excessive courtroom mentioned it might hear the plea on Tuesday. Jacob in her plea sought transit anticipatory bail for a interval of 4 weeks in order that she will be able to method the courtroom involved in Delhi to use for pre-arrest bail.
The advocate in her plea mentioned she is unaware whether or not she is known as as an accused or witness within the case. “However, the applicant (Jacob) fears that she may be arrested due to political vendetta and media trial,” her software mentioned.
It additional mentioned the FIR registered within the case was “false and baseless” and Jacob has already cooperated with the cyber cell of the Delhi police and recorded her assertion.
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“Some entity named Legal Rights Observatory appears to have filed a false and baseless complaint with the Delhi police and seeks to pin the blame for violence on January 26, 2021 upon the applicant as well,” the plea mentioned.
As per the appliance, on February 11, a crew of Delhi police got here to Jacob’s home in Goregaon space of Mumbai with a search warrant and seized paperwork and digital devices.
“The applicant has no religious, political or financial motive or agenda for researching, discussing, editing and circulating communication packs/toolkits for raising awareness, let alone to incite violence, riots and/or cause any other physical harm,” the appliance mentioned.

It mentioned Jacob was a practising advocate within the Bombay High Court who volunteers for environmental causes.
“The applicant was deeply concerned about the recent farm laws and villainising of farmers,” the appliance mentioned.
It mentioned Jacob’s private data and particulars are being circulated on social media.
The software additional mentioned that absolute lies are being unfold to incite hate and violence towards Jacob by claiming she has ties with political events just like the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
The Delhi police on Saturday arrested 21-year-old environmental activist Disha Ravi from Bengaluru in reference to the case. She was on Sunday produced earlier than a Delhi courtroom which remanded her in police custody for 5 days.
Greta Thunberg, a teen local weather activist, had shared the “toolkit” to lend her assist to the farmers’ agitation close to Delhi borders towards the Centre’s three agri legal guidelines. In the doc, numerous pressing actions, together with making a Twitter storm and protesting exterior Indian embassies, had been listed which had been wanted to be taken to assist the farmers’ protest. The toolkit has been cited by some critics as a “proof” of her conspiracy to gasoline protests in India.
Thousands of farmers protesting the Centre’s new agri legal guidelines clashed with the police throughout their tractor parade on January 26.
Over 500 police safety personnel had been injured whereas one protester died through the Republic Day violence. Earlier, the Delhi police had requested Google and a few social media giants to supply details about e-mail ID, URLs and sure social media accounts associated to creators of the “toolkit” shared by Thunberg and others on Twitter in reference to the farmers’ protest. 
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