The Mumbai Police’s cyber cell has arrested three people following questioning in the Bulli bai cases.
“The main accused woman was handling three accounts related to ‘Bulli Bai’ app. The Co-accused Vishal Kumar opened an account by the name Khalsa supremacist. On Dec 31, he changed the names of other accounts to resemble Sikh names. Fake Khalsa account holders were shown,” Mumbai Police.
Bulli bai surfaced on January 01 on GitHub, when pictures of hundreds of Muslim women, mainly journalists, activists and other vocal women from the community were put on auction.
Another accused Mayank Rawal was caught in the early hours of Wednesday. A second year engineering student from Bengaluru, Vishal Kumar Jha, was arrested earlier.
“Three people have been arrested for the ‘Bulli Bai’ app and Twitter handle. We are looking for more people involved,” Mumbai Police Commissioner Hemant Nagrale told reporters.
The youngest of them, Shweta Singh, was allegedly the brain behind the app. The teenager, also from Uttarakhand, controlled ‘Bulli Bai’ and three more apps, investigations reveal.
She did it for money, according to the Uttarakhand police say. Her father died of Covid and her mother had died earlier.
“The woman who was arrested from Uttarakhand’s Rudrapur in the ‘Bulli Bai’ app case belongs to a poor family and her father is not alive. It seems she got involved in such activities for money,” said Uttarakhand police chief Ashok Kumar.
The app was allegedly set up on December 31.
