Toolkit Case: Bombay HC protects Nikita Jacob from arrest for 3 weeks
In connection with Greta Thunberg’s’ toolkit case, the Delhi Police has issued non-bailable warrants against Nikita Jacob.
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted a three-week interim transit bail to Nikita Jacob, granting her temporary protection from arrest.
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She will now have to move to either the Delhi High Court or the sessions court to seek anticipatory bail.
Nikita Jacob’s lawyers argued that she had co-operated in the investigations and would continue to do so.
The Bombay HC considered this argument while granting interim transit bail to Jacob whom the Delhi Police described as a “committed operator in an international anti-India information warfare.”
Jacob’s lawyer Samyukta De said she would now move for anticipatory bail.
Delhi Police had secured non-bailable warrants against Jacob for her alleged role in creating a toolkit which was later shared with global climate activist Greta Thunberg who shared the same on Twitter and then deleted it.
Delhi police has claimed that the toolkit was prepared in collaboration with Khalistan sympathizers based in Canada.
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Relief to Nikita Jacob comes after ten-day relief to another accused in the case Shantanu Muluk.
Both Jacob and Muluk are working for a UK based NGO Extinction Foundation.
According to the reports, a special cell team went to Nikita Jacob’s house in Mumbai and examined her electronic gadgets, however, she was not present in the house at that time.
The reports added, the Delhi Police visited her residence again for questioning in the case but she was not available.
There was a zoom meeting before Republic Day.
According to the police, Mumbai lawyer Nikita Jacob and Pune engineer Shantanu were among the around 70 people who had attended the meeting through Zoom app, days before the Republic Day violence in the national capital that leftover 500 police personnel injured and one protester dead.
-PTC News
