Delhi court grants bail to Disha Ravi

Delhi court grants bail to Disha Ravi

Judge said ‘toolkit’ shared by activist is ‘innocuous;

Terming the ‘toolkit’ shared by climate change activist Disha Ravi ‘’innocuous’’, a Delhi court on Tuesday granted her bail. Ms. Ravi was arrested for sharing ‘toolkit’ relating to the ongoing farmers’ protest against three contentious farm laws.

Additional sessions judge Dharmendra Rana said, ‘’The perusal of the said ‘toolkit’ reveals that any call for any kind of violence is conspicuously absent.’’

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Dealing with the interpretation of the word ‘sedition’, a charge slapped by the Delhi Police on the 22-year-old activist, the judge said, ‘’Law proscribes only such activities as would be intended, or have a tendency, to create disorder or disturbance of public peace by resort to violence’’.

‘’There is not even an iota of evidence brought to my notice connecting the perpetrators of the violence on January 26,2021, with the said PJF [Poetic Justice Foundation] or the applicant/accused [Ravi],’’ the court said, terming the evidence against Ms. Ravi “scanty and sketchy’’.