Mumbai police said on Tuesday that the main defendant was detained in Uttarakhand in the case of the “Bulli Bai” application for a false online auction against Muslim women.
The defendant was a woman who knew a 21-year-old engineering student who was arrested in Mumbai during the day after 10 hours of barbecue.
The arrested man was detained from Bangalore one day ago and was identified as Vishal Kumar. DCP Rashmi Karandikar, a Mumbai police network team, arrested him after 10 hours of interrogation. Kumar was later detained by the police until January 10.
The police stated that the main defendant was dealing with three accounts related to the “Bulli Bai” app. “Kumar opened an account called Khalsa Suprematists. On December 31, he changed the names of other accounts to similar to Sikh names. Mumbai police stated in a statement quoted by the news agency ANI, Fake Khalsa account holders were shown. The leaked photos of more than 100 famous Muslim women, including journalists, activists, movie stars and artists, caused an uproar. Last weekend they applied without their permission.
The website included these women on the “auction” list, and the software appears to be a clone of the banned application “Sulli Deals” that sparked similar controversy last year.
The women listed on the website also include the 65-year-old mother of a missing Indian student and Pakistani Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.
According to the relevant chapters of the Indian Criminal Code and the Information Technology Act, an unknown criminal has been prosecuted.
The website is hosted on GitHub, a coding platform in San Francisco, and was exposed after the anger of several victims and other supporters on Twitter.
A company spokesperson for GitHub stated that it has deleted the user account hosting the site on its platform and will cooperate with investigating authorities.
Delhi police asked Twitter on Monday to block and delete related “offensive content” on its platform.
Investigations have been conducted in at least three states, and the police filed criminal proceedings against the developer of the website based on complaints from the targeted women.
Complete News Source : Hindustan Times
