Disha Ravi can get access to lawyer, warm clothes, books as court allows

Delhi court on Tuesday allowed climate activist Disha Ravi’s application seeking access to her lawyer, talktime with family during the police custody, warm clothes, books and home-cooked food. This 21 year activist was arrested on 13 this month from Bengaluru for editing and sharing aa toolkit related to farmers protest and was sent to five days police custody the next day.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pankaj Sharma has allowed her access to the First Information Report (FIR) in the ‘toolkit’ case, the remand application and arrest memo. He also said that she should also have access to warm clothes, meet with parents for 15 minutes and access to lawyer for 30 minutes.

The Delhi Police’s Cyber Cell had lodged an FIR against “pro-Khalistan” creators of the “toolkit” for waging a “social, cultural and economic war against the government of India”.

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