Delhi Police has lodged an FIR against a tweet by Greta Thunberg which mentions a "toolkit" having a global plan to garner support for ongoing farmers' protest in India. As the tweet has been done by the Swedish climate change activist, Delhi Police informed that the FIR does not specifically mention any name.
"It Is only against the creators of the toolkit which is a matter of investigation and Delhi Police will be investigating that case," Praveer Ranjan, Special Commissioner of Police (CP), Delhi Police informed media persons on Thursday.
Earlier, sources informed ABP LIVE that Delhi Police took action against on Greta Thunberg's tweets as it was termed inflammatory.
"Sections in FIR are 124 A IPC-spreading disaffection against Govt of India, 153 A-promoting hatred amongst various communities on social/cultural/religious grounds, same is 153 & 120 B for criminal conspiracy to give shape to such a plan," Praveer Ranjan informed about the charges levelled against the content of the tweet.
One "toolkit" tweet has been deleted by the 18-year-old and later was updated stating: "Here’s an updated toolkit by people on the ground in India if you want to help. (They removed their previous document as it was outdated.)"
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here’s an updated toolkit by people on the ground in India if you want to help. (They removed their previous document as it was outdated.)<a >#StandWithFarmers</a> <a >#FarmersProtest</a><a >https://t.co/ZGEcMwHUNL</a></p>— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) <a >February 3, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Meanwhile, after the news of Delhi police lodging FIR against came in, Greta took to Twitter and wrote: "I still Stand With Farmers".
After international pop icon Rihanna tweeted in support of farmers' protest over internet shutdown, Greta Thunberg also tweeted to express solidarity.