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-Khalistani secessionist group” Poetic Justice Foundation.