Toolkit row: Delhi Police writes to Zoom, seeks details for Jan 11 meeting

The Delhi Police has written a letter to Zoom, a video conferencing app, seeking details of all the participants who attended the meeting on January 11, organised allegedly by a pro-Khalistani group for preparing toolkit, backing the farmer’s agitation, officials said on Tuesday.

Police purported that Mumbai lawyer Nikita Jacob and Pune engineer Shantanu were amongst the other 70 people, who had attended the meeting on Zoom app, just a few days before the Red Fort violence, which took place on Republic Day and left one protestor dead and over 500 policemen injured.

Nikita Jacob, Shantanu and Disha Ravi were arrested by the police for attending the zoom meeting for preparing toolkit and Shantanu was alleged to be the owner of the toolkit Google document. 

The officials said, “The Delhi Police has written to video conferencing app Zoom seeking details of participants who attended the meeting on January 11.”

Joint Commissioner of Police Prem Nath had alleged that the e-mail account that was created by Shantanu is the owner of this Google document.

“Pro-Khalistani group Poetic Justice Foundation (PJF) founder Mo Dhaliwal had contacted them (Jacob and Shantanu) through a Canada-based woman named Punit,” Nath had said.

“Nikita and Shantanu had on January 11 attended a Zoom meeting organized by PFJ in which modalities were decided to create the ‘toolkit’ titled ‘Global Farmer Strike’ and ‘Global Day of Action, 26 January’,” Nath said.