Disha Ravi gets bail

A Delhi Court on Tuesday granted bail to climate change activist Disha Ravi, arrested for allegedly being involved in sharing a ‘toolkit’ on social media in connection with the ongoing farmers’ protest against three farm laws.

The court on Monday sent her to one-day police custody, which ended on Tuesday.

The 22-year-old was arrested on February 13 and sent in five-day police custody the next day. After the end of the police custody, on February 19, she was sent to three-day judicial custody and it expired on Monday.

Ms. Ravi, a permanent resident of Bengaluru, was arrested by a Cyber Cell team of the Delhi Police from Bengaluru and brought to the capital.

According to the Delhi Police, Ms. Ravi is an editor of the “Toolkit Google Doc” and was a key conspirator in the document’s formulation and dissemination. It alleged that she started a WhatsApp group to make the Toolkit doc in collaboration with alleged pro-Khalistani organisation Poetic Justice Foundation to spread disaffection against the Indian state.

Ms. Ravi, in her defence before the court, had said she had just edited two lines in the ‘toolkit’ and that she was in support of the farmers and was influenced by their protests.