Toolkit case: No leakage of information to media, Centre tells Delhi High Court

The Centre told the Delhi High Court on Thursday that there has been no leakage of messages or any other details from the Delhi Police to the media in connection with the toolkit case which has climate activist Disha Ravi as the accusedThe 21yearold activist has approached the Delhi High Court seeking a direction to the Delhi Police to not leak any investigation material in relation to toolkit case to the mediaDisha in the petition stated that she is being viscerally attacked by the Delhi Police and several media houses on the basis of leaked investigative matter and prejudicial press briefingsThis is for media attention There has been no leakage of info from the police We will file an affidavit on this Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told Justice Prathiba SinghAfter hearing the contentions the court gave Centre time till tomorrow to file the affidavitBesides notice has also been issued to the News Broadcasters Association News 18 and Times NowThe climate activist was arrested from Bengaluru last week in connection with allegedly editing and sharing a toolkit on social media related to the farmers protest and was remanded to fiveday police custody the next dayIn the application in the high court she has sought directing Delhi Police not to leak any investigation material in relation to FIR No 4920 PS Special Cell including alleged contents of private chats or communication by the Petitioner to any third party including the mediaBesides she has sought appropriate action against News18 IndiaToday and Times Now and all other satellite TV channels to restrain them from publishing the contents or extracts of any alleged private chats including WhatsApp chats between her and third partiesThe Cyber Cell had lodged an FIR against proKhalistan creators of the toolkit for waging a social cultural and economic war against the government of IndiaOn Sunday the Delhi Police took to the microblogging website Twitter to elaborate on the case It wrote Disha Ravi arrested by Delhi Police is an Editor of the Toolkit Google Doc and key conspirator in documents formulation and disseminationShe has started WhatsApp Group and collaborated to make the Toolkit document the police said adding that she worked closely with them to draft itIn this process they all collaborated with proKhalistani Poetic Justice Foundation to spread disaffection against the Indian State She was the one who shared the Toolkit document with Greta Thunberg the police wrote on TwitterAfter the arrest the Delhi Police Special Cell procured fiveday custody of 21yearold climate activist from the court to identify ProKhalistani Group Poetic Justice Foundation and its active members and to recover the deleted WhatsApp GroupHer police custody ends on February 19 She will again be produced before the courtThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever