Climate activist Disha Ravi's NGO faced heat from Centre last year too

Indian arm of Greta Thunberg's climate group, FFF's website was then shut, its emails blocked

Fridays for Future (FFF), the climate advocacy group that environment activist Disha Ravi, who was arrested on Sunday, is part of, was in the Centre’s line of fire last year as well.

In July 2020, FFF India faced a backlash from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) when it submitted mass emails against the government’s draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) rules, which deal with the process of evaluating the environmental impact of a proposed project.

Little known until then, FFF India and two other NGOs had through mass emails and petitions submitted to the MoEFCC to withdraw