Around 70 Bengaluru residents have written a memorandum to the city’s police Commissioner raising questions over the legality of 21-year-old activist Disha Ravi’s arrest and asked the state police to take action against the Delhi Police. Disha Ravi was arrested on Saturday from Bengaluru and sent to five days police remand in Delhi on Sunday after she was alleged to be the “key conspirator” behind a Twitter “toolkit” related to the farmers’ protest shared by Greta Thunberg. In their memorandum, the Bengaluru citizens have questioned the constitutional provisions and legal procedures under which Disha Ravi was arrested. “The arrest was carried out arbitrarily and in complete violation of procedures established both in constitutional and criminal law. The entire incident was a clear and blatant violation of Article 19, 21 and 22 of the Constitution of India… As we will establish in the instant memorandum, all constitutional protections enjoyed by the arrestee were brazenly denied to her and she was taken to Delhi in a wholly unlawful manner,” the letter states.
Meanwhile, the All India Students’ Association (AISA) on Monday staged a protest in Bengaluru condemning the arrest of Disha Ravi. Holding placards and wearing black masks, the agitators raised slogans, “Free Disha Ravi”. Their placards read, “Standing for Farmers is not sedition”, and “When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty”. Several student activists in Bengaluru also held a protest on Sunday while the Coalition for Environmental Justice in India demanded the release of Disha Ravi. Congress leader Sowmya Reddy and Historian Ramchandra Guha also attended the protest demanding Disha’s release. A Protest was also organized outside Delhi police headquarters by AISA.
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