Lagatar24 Desk
Mumbai, Jan 4: Mumbai police on Tuesday, arrested a woman in Uttarakhand who is suspected of being the mastermind behind the ‘Bulli Bai’ app, which targets Muslim women.
“A woman has been detained by the cyber cell of Mumbai Police in Uttarakhand. Seems like is the main mastermind behind the app. She will be presented before a court in Uttarakhand for transit remand. After obtaining the transit remand, she will be brought to Mumbai,” said a police official.
This comes nearly six months after a pejorative ‘Sulli Deals’ site debuted on the hosting platform ‘GITHUB,’ purportedly uploading images of women for auction without their knowledge.
Earlier, Mumbai Police arrested Vishal Kumar, a 21-year-old civil engineering student after questioning for several hours.
“The detained woman and the arrested man became friends via social media site – Instagram. The racket behind the app includes many more people,” said the official.
“Vishal changed his name on December 31. He took up a name related to the Sikh community,” the official added.
Vishal was apprehended in Bengaluru and transported to Mumbai for questioning. Based on accusations that doctored images of women were put for auction on the ‘Bulli Bai’ application housed on the GitHub platform, Mumbai Police filed a first information report (FIR) against unknown persons on Monday.
On Sunday, the West Mumbai Cyber Police station filed a complaint against the developers of the ‘Bulli Bai’ software and the Twitter accounts that promoted it.
The case was registered against the unknown culprits under sections 153(A) (Promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion etc), 153(B) (Imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration), 295(A) (Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings), 354D (stalking), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman), 500 (criminal defamation) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 67 (publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form) of Information Technology Act.
