Delhi Police arrests Bengaluru activist Disha Ravi in probe into Greta-shared 'toolkit'

In latest development, a 21-year-old climate change activist Disha Ravi was arrested from Bengaluru in connection with 'toolkit' related to farmers' protests which was also shared by Greta Thunberg. Disha Ravi, founder of Friday for Future (FFF), was arrested by Delhi Police special cell on Saturday and will be questioned for allegedly disseminating toolkit related to farmers' protests to various people via social media. 21-year-old is co-founder of FFF which began in August 2018 when Greta Thunberg anunced a school strike against climate change. 

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Greta shares toolkit, deletes it moments later 

Greta Thunberg had previously shared a toolkit titled 'Global Farmers Strike- First Wave', which seems to have been in circulation since early January. It had encourd people to organise solidarity protests eir at or near Indian Embassies, local government offices or offices of various multinational Adani and Ambani companies. It also urged people to participate in farmers' tractor rally on Republic Day - which had ended in violence. 

However, in doing so, Greta Thunberg mistakingly shared a 'toolkit' which had organised plan of 'Twitter storm' on February 4 and 5, and n solidarity messs by February 5 and 6, besides Republic Day plot to carry out protests outside Indian embassies across world. Just hours later, toolkit was deleted and an updated toolkit with certain omissions was posted by Greta Thunberg. outdated 'toolkit' and current one both provide a list of “urgent actions” as well as “prior actions”. former has a timeline: A 'Twitter storm' on 4 and 5 February; solidarity photo or video mess by 5 and 6 February; contacting government representatives to ask m to take action; signing online petitions; and divesting from Adani, Ambani enterprises. 

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list of "prior actions "includes a ‘Digital Strike’ with hashtag  ‘Ask India Why’ and asks readers to tag @PMOIndia, @nstomar (Minister of Agriculture & Farmer Welfare), heads of or nations, and international bodies like IMF, WTO, FAO, World Bank.

Thunberg n shared an 'updated toolkit' which continued to claim that "India has a long history of human rights violations, violence, and a cruel indifference for its most vulnerable citizens." and states that, "It is paramount to put international pressure on India’s Government." It also removes Republic Day plan from AskIndiaWhy's 'prior actions' and call to boycott 'Adani and Ambani'.

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Google agrees to identify creators of 'toolkit' doc

Days after environment activist Greta Thunberg shared 'toolkit' to protest revealing plot to intensify protests in India, Google has agreed to identify creators of document, sources informed. said document is also under scanner of Delhi Police, investigating its connection to January 26 violence that broke out on streets of national capital in garb of farmers' protest.  Earlier on February 5, Delhi Police had sought details of several accounts from Instagram and Google in connection with 'toolkit'. Delhi Police had also written to Google to get IP address or location from where 'toolkit' shared and uploaded on social media platform to identify its creators. Prior to that, Delhi Police filed an FIR in connection with 'toolkit' which was exposed by Republic Media Network, alleging that it aimed to w a "social, cultural and ecomic war against Government of India". 

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