6 Questions for Delhi Police on Disha Ravi’s Arrest for ‘Toolkit’

Concerns include lack of transit remand, lawyer of choice & spinning public narratives violating high court orders.

The Delhi Police‘s arrest of climate activist Disha Ravi has already become controversial, not just because of the dubious grounds on which she is being accused of a criminal offence, but also over the actions of the police force and the magistrate before whom she was produced.

From arresting the 21-year-old activist from Bengaluru without obtaining a transit remand order, to the Delhi magistrate’s decision to send her to five days of police custody, there are serious questions to be asked about whether legal procedures were appropriately followed.

Moreover, the Delhi Police’s attempts to spin a narrative about Ravi through their tweets and now selective leaks to the media appear to contradict recent orders of the Delhi and Bombay High Courts.