Greta Toolkit probe: Among the prominent figures described in the ‘Toolkit’ shared by Greta Thunberg accidentally was one name that caught the eyes of Delhi Police-Special Cell. And that name was – Pieter Friedrich. Pieter’s name was described in the ‘who to be followed section’ of Toolkit, designed to influence the ongoing farmers’ protest in India. The Toolkit had a detailed action program to amplify farmers’ protests by disseminating “fake news” about farm laws and generating a Twitter storm on Republic Day.
Today, the Delhi Police shared the information of its probe into the Toolkit. When asked about the part of Peiter Friedrich described in the Toolkit, DCP Manishi Chandra stated that the particular person was a proponent of Khalistan and had been on safety agencies’ radar given that late 2006.
He stated the toolkit was a extremely very carefully crafted document. “What hashtags to be made trend on a particular day, what action is to be taken, who is to be tagged, and who is to be followed — and if you follow the section as to what is to be followed, you will see certain names of established media houses, reputed fact checkers, some non-governmental organisations.”
“And then among those you will find a very incongruence looking name, and that very incongruence looking name is Pieter Friedrich. Pieter Friedrich has been on the radar of Indian security establishment since late 2006. When he was noticed being in the company one – Bhajan Singh Bhinder alias Iqbal Choudhury. He must have known this name…most of you have known this name at least those who have been following K2 (Kashmir-Khalistan) desk of ISI. So he (Bhajan Singh Binder) has been a very leading proponent of K2 desk,” Chandra stated.
The DCP additional stated that Friedrich got connected with him (Bhajan SIngh Bhinder) and there is ample proof to this. Bhajan Singh Bhinder, he stated, was a POI for the US-DEA for very some time. “And as of now, he is running what we call as info operations — Psy-ops (Psychological operations),” the Delhi Police officer stated.
The DCP also stated that as to why the name of Pieter Friedrich located a location of relevance amongst these who have been to be followed as resource persons was an answer which only the accused Disha and her colleagues can inform the police. “Whether it came from Mo Dhariwal or do they have direct connection with Peter Friedrich or BS Bhinder – that is part of the investigation,” he stated.
During the press conference, Joint CP-Cyber Cell Prem Nath stated that numerous screenshots of the toolkit have been out there on open supply and have been investigated. When probe, he stated, was in a position to fetch sufficient data, a search warrant was obtained from court against Nikita Jacob, one of the editors of the toolkit google document.
“A team reached Mumbai and conducted searches at Nikita Jacob residence on February 11. She and her associates Shantanu and Disha had created the document. The email account created by Shantanu is the owner of this document and all others are its editors,” the Joint CP stated. Disha has been arrested and an arrest warrant has been issued against Jacob and Shantanu.
The senior police officer additional stated that a lady named Puneet who is based in Canada connected these folks to the Pro-Khalistani Poetic Justice Foundation. “On 11th January Nikita and Shantanu attended a Zoom meeting organised by Poetic Justice Foundation in which modalities were chalked out,” the officer stated.