There is outrage in the whole country about the app “Bulli Bai” which conducts “auction” of Muslim women. The controversial app was made live using the hosting platform GitHub and photographs of hundreds of Muslim women were being used for “auctions”.
The Cyber Cell of Mumbai Police, probing the Bulli Bai app case, has arrested an 18-year-old woman from Uttarakhand and a 21-year-old engineering student from Bengaluru in this case. According to the police, the name of the student arrested from Bangalore is Vishal Kumar Jha and the girl arrested from Uttarakhand is Shweta Singh.
According to police sources, both the accused knew each other. According to the police, more arrests could be made in this case. An official said that Shweta used to run many accounts on this app. It is also being said that Shweta was the mastermind behind this whole matter.
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The Mumbai Police had registered an FIR against unknown people on January 1 in the Bulli Bai app case. Amidst growing outrage over this matter, Delhi Police has also asked GitHub for information about the creators of the Bulli Bai app and has also asked Twitter to remove the content related to it. The police have also sought information from Twitter about the account from which the app was first tweeted.
Leaders in the political circles have also condemned the online harassment of women from the minority community and demanded strict action against the culprits. Many people have blamed right-wing elements for this.
The Delhi Union of Journalists and its Gender Council also expressed shock and anger over the incident of targeting of women from the Muslim community, including several female Muslim journalists.
Describing the matter as “serious”, the Delhi Minorities Commission has issued a notice to Delhi Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana seeking a report on the action taken in the matter by January 10. The commission said that there is a need to apprehend the culprits to protect the interests of Muslim women.
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The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) has also asked the police officers to appear before the commission by the end of this week.
This is the second time in the last one year that hundreds of Muslim women, without their permission, have had their photographs and details listed for “auction” on an app. The pictures of many women have also been tampered and wrongly presented on the app. Before Bulli Bai, similarly last year pictures and information of Muslim women were uploaded on an app called “Sulli Deals”.
Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse-Patil and Minister of State for Home Satej Patil have said that strict action will be taken against the culprits.
Satej Patil praised the “quick action” of the Mumbai Police in the matter. He said a “very large network” seems to be behind such planned crimes and the Mumbai Police will unearth this “entire nexus that is promoting hate crimes against women in our country”.
The matter came to light after some Muslim women, who were active and more outreach on social media, complained that their photographs were uploaded on Bulli Bai app with tampering.
Qurtulain Rahbar, a journalist from Kashmir, was also listed in the ‘online auction’. Rahbar wrote on Twitter, “Last year I wrote about how pictures of Muslim women were auctioned online, due to which women are feeling humiliated. Today, almost a year later, I am seeing a picture of myself in bully deals with other Muslim women, which makes me feel extremely disgusted.”
Last year I wrote about how muslim women’s pictures were auctioned online where women felt haunted and humiliated. Today, after a year seeing my own picture in another trend #bullideals, besides other muslim womens’, makes me feel utmost disgusting. https://t.co/AE0N1sInE2
— Quratulain Rehbar (@ainulrhbr) January 1, 2022
New Delhi-based woman journalist Ismar Ara also lodged a complaint with the Delhi Police after she found herself a part of the ‘auction’.
UPDATE: An FIR has been registered by Cyber Police (South East Delhi) on the basis of my complaint with IPC sections 153A (Promoting enmity on grounds of religion etc), 153B (Imputations prejudicial to national-integration), 354A & 509 for sexual harassment. #BulliDeals pic.twitter.com/dJ1mspyiGI — Ismat Ara (@IsmatAraa) January 2, 2022
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