Toolkit case: ‘Delhi cops raided home sans warrant,’ reveals suspect's father

Activists from the National Students’ Union of India protest against the arrest of Disha Ravi in New Delhi on Wednesday. Pic/AFP

Two people claiming to be the Delhi cops seized a computer hard disk and other items from the house of climate activist Shantanu Muluk, a suspect in the ‘toolkit' case related to the farmers' protest, without a search warrant, in Beed, Maharashtra, his father Shivlal Muluk has told police.

Beed superintendent of police (SP) Raja Ramaswami said on Wednesday that Shivlal made a representation to the police on Tuesday.

‘Will enquire and act'

"We got representation yesterday. We'll enquire and accordingly take needful action (sic)," reads the message texted to PTI by Ramaswami.

On Tuesday, the Bombay High Court granted transit anticipatory bail to Shantanu for 10 days. Shivlal, 54, made the representation as a ‘responsible citizen' to Beed police and urged the SP to take appropriate action regarding the ‘search' conducted at his house, an official said.

Raid on Feb 12

The letter stated that two people visited the residence of the Muluks in Chanakyapuri area in Beed on February 12 around 5.30 am and introduced themselves as officials of the Delhi police by showing their identity cards, the official said.

The duo told the Muluk family that Delhi police wanted to know about Shantanu, saying he had committed treason and he had been in contact with pro-Khalistan people, the official said quoting the letter.

Took environment poster

The duo then searched all rooms in the house and took away a hard disk, an environment-related poster, a book, and a mobile phone cover from Shantanu's room, it stated.

According to Shivlal, the police officials did not show any search warrant and also didn't obtain any permission from the family before taking away these items, the letter said. They also didn't prepare any ‘panchnama' of the seized material.

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