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NEW DELHI: Activist Nikita Jacob, a co-accused in the farm agitation toolkit case, has moved a Delhi court for anticipatory bail. Her plea is likely to come up for hearing in the court of additional sessions judge Dharmender Rana on Tuesday.
As in the case of Shantanu Muluk, another activist named in Delhi Police’s FIR, the Bombay high court had granted Jacob transit anticipatory bail for three weeks, starting February
17. She was asked to approach the Delhi court within this period for further relief.
It was sessions judge Rana who granted bail to Disha Ravi, the climate activist arrested from Bengaluru in the same case, on February 23. Citing “scanty and sketchy evidence available on record”, he said there was no palpable reason to breach the general rule of bail “against the 22-year-old lady with absolutely blemishfree antecedents and having firm roots in society”. The prosecution had pushed its case on the basis of alleged “links” between Disha and “pro-Khal
Toolkit case: Nikita Jacob’s bail plea on March 9
Agencies
March 2, 2021
New Delhi, Mar 2: A Delhi Court on Tuesday said that it will hear Mumbai-based activist lawyer Nikita Jacob s anticipatory bail plea on March 9, a day before her protection from arrest ends in connection with the Toolkit case related to the farmers agitation.
Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana adjourned the matter after he was apprised by the Delhi Police that they need more time to file a comprehensive reply to the application and that it be kept with a similar plea by co-accused Shantanu Muluk on March 9.
On February 17, Bombay High Court had granted three weeks transit anticipatory bail to Jacob with a direction to approach the court concerned in Delhi, where the case is lodged. Her protection from arrest ends on March 10.