![]() They had set up a Twitter handle, named and entered the user location as Canada. The accused had purposely included words like ‘Jat’ and ‘Khalsa’ in their usernames, in order to give the impression that people from the Sikh community were involved in the offence. We then started obtaining details of the followers of the app, which led us to two more accused based in Uttarakhand, identified as Shweta Singh (18) and Mayank Rawat (21),” Mumbai Police Commissioner Hemant Nagrale said. On January 2, the Mumbai cyber police station registered a complaint which named five Twitter handles, namely sage0x11, and analysis of the Twitter handles led us to one of the accused, identified as Kumar Vishal Jha (21), a second year Engineering student in Bengaluru. #Unreplied app softwareThe app, named Bulli Bai, was developed in November and hosted on GitHub, an open source software development and hosting platform, as was the earlier app named Sulli Deals. Why would the youngsters try to pass off as Sikh sympathisers of Khalistan? Who would gain by creating the impression that Sikhs were maligning Muslim women in India? This surely does not appear like an innocuous misadventure by some misguided youth. Are bright, engineering students being recruited, paid and trained to do it? What else are they being trained to do? Have they been known to each other? Were they following each other? What was their motivation? Did they all do it for money? Were they involved in floating the earlier online auction of Muslim women as well? The unwitting admission that the young woman could have done it for money raises the question of who would have spent money on the operation and why. The chain of links between an engineering student in Assam, another in Bengaluru and two others from Uttarakhand is also intriguing. But one hopes details would be available soon. Police is reluctant to share details, arguing that they cannot divulge too much because the investigationis in progress. So, why did they do it? There are far too many uncomfortable questions around the Bulli Bai app controversy. The tech savvy youngsters would have known they would be caught. But did money actually change hands and, if so, by whom, how much and when? Why is it taking so much time to track down this mysterious Nepali?Ībove all, why did these youngsters switch to their actual handles after initially using bots? Why would Neeraj Bishnoi claim on Twitter that he was the mastermind and Mumbai Police should stop harassing and arresting the innocent? Switching to their actual accounts helped the police track them down swiftly. She had lost her father to Covid last year, having lost her mother in 2011, and might have been lured by the money. There has been no information, however, about the mysterious person in Nepal, who was allegedly instructing the 18-year-old Shweta Singh. Mumbai Police arrested a second-year engineering student Vishal Jha from Bengaluru and two more youth-Shweta Singh (18) and Mayank Rawat- from Uttarakhand. #Unreplied app codeDelhi Police arrested Neeraj Bishnoi (21) from Jorhat in Assam, and claimed to have retrieved the source code from him. Nothing, however, explains how they compiled the list of 100 Muslim women, many of them critics of the BJP Government, among them the wife of a sitting Delhi High Court judge.īut while the app uploaded on January 1 with the intention of harassing and maligning the women, was quickly taken down, and four culprits, including the alleged mastermind were swiftly arrested, questions remain. ![]() ![]() That is one aspect of the Bulli Bai app controversy.Īnother aspect is that all the four arrested happen to be in the age group of 18-21, three of them engineering students and the youngest, a girl, preparing for an engineering course. Public outrage over the second such online auction and prompt police complaints forced the police to act. One app, five followers, four arrests and a welcome pushback to online ‘mock auction’ of women. ![]()
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