A Mumbai court on Thursday rejected the bail applications of Vishal Kumar Jha, Shweta Singh and Mayank Rawat – all three charged in the controversial “Bulli Bai” case for which they were arrested by Mumbai police.
The Bulli Bai app, hosted on the code-sharing platform GitHub, is currently under investigation by the Mumbai police. The app itself is named in a derogatory sense of the Muslim community, and it comes a year after a similar fiasco involving another targeted harassment app, Sulli Deals, made headlines.
Hundreds of Muslim women, including vocal activists and top professionals, have been put on “auction” lists to doctor and obtain their pictures without permission. While there is no actual “auction” or “sale,” the app appears to be designed to shame and intimidate the targeted women, many of whom are active social media users.
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