Bulli Bai App Creator Arrested From Assam; Shweta Singh Framed By Online Friend, Says Sister

Delhi Police arrested an engineering student, who is said to be the main conspirator and creator of the 'Bulli Bai' on GitHub and the main Twitter account holder of the app.

According to the police, the accused, Neeraj Bishnoi, was arrested by IFSO (Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations unit) of the Special Cell of Delhi Police from Assam.

Neeraj Bishnoi, arrested from Assam by Delhi Police Special Cell's IFSO team, is the main conspirator & creator of 'Bulli Bai' on GitHub & the main Twitter account holder of the app. He is being brought to Delhi: DCP (IFSO) KPS Malhotra pic.twitter.com/8ooktfVmbl

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20-year-old Bishnoi is a resident of the Jorhat village of Assam. He is a second-year B.Tech computer science student at Vellore Institute of Technology, Bhopal.

Neeraj Bishnoi, the main conspirator & creator of 'Bulli Bai' on GitHub & the main Twitter account holder of the app, brought to Delhi from Assam by Delhi Police Special Cell pic.twitter.com/qlZ9qU8DPY

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This was the first arrest made by the Delhi Police in connection with the Bulli Bai case.

Three other accused, 21-year-old engineering student Vishal Kumar Jha, 18-year-old Shweta Singh, and her friend Mayank Rawat, a DU student were arrested by the Mumbai Police.

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FIR filed in Mumbai

Mumbai Police on Monday filed a first information report (FIR) against unknown persons based on complaints that doctored photographs of women were uploaded for auction on the 'Bulli Bai' application hosted on the GitHub platform.

On Sunday, West Mumbai Cyber Police station registered a case against the 'Bulli Bai' app developers and Twitter handles that promoted the app.

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.

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The Bulli Bai app came into the limelight after several Muslim women, including journalists and activists, were alerted about their doctored photos being auctioned online.

Vishal Kumar Jha, the engineering student, was one of the followers of Bulli Bai, which led the police to him.

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The 'Bulli Bai' app was also being promoted by a Twitter handle with the name @bullibai, with the display picture of a Khalistani supporter.

This Twitter handle was endorsing the Bulli Bai app saying 'women can be booked from the app'. This handle was also promoting Khalistani content at the same time.

'Shweta was framed'

Meanwhile, the sister of Shweta has claimed that she was framed by a man who she met online.

According to Manisha Singh, a man identified as Himanshu Goyal had misused Shweta's credentials to do these ghastly acts on the internet.

Her account was used to upload pictures of Muslim women on the app hosted on GitHub, using three different accounts.

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