Neeraj Bishnoi, the creator of Bulli Bai App and the main accused in the case who was arrested on Thursday by Delhi Police in Assam has said that he did the ‘right thing’ and has no remorse for his actions.
He was presented in court on the same day and sent to seven days’ police custody.
Sources today said Bishnoi, a resident of Assam, had been tracked down via digital surveillance of a Twitter handle – @bullibai_ – that he created, and which has now been suspended.
The app itself has now been deleted, after GitHub initially only blocked it.
Sources said that interrogation so far had revealed the app was actually developed in November and it went public on December 31, at which time another Twitter handle – @sage0x1 was created to spread the word.
Bishnoi reportedly also created a @giyu44 handle that he used to mock Mumbai Police – he referred to them as “slumbai police” – after they announced the three earlier arrests.
“You have arrested the wrong person, slumbai police… I am the creator of #BulliBaiApp… Got nothing to do with the two innocents whom u arrested, release them asap…” the tweet reads.
Radicalised at a very young age.
A peek into his Quora account shows Bishnoi providing a philosophical ‘answer’ to an apparent question on religion first on June 9, 2017.
“I’ve seen some religious parents (no resemblance) which are very ‘tough’, they don’t let their children get out of the house, they don’t let them read other religious books,” he said in an answer to a question.
“Please tell your parents that following principles of Hinduism won’t make you a Hindu, besides there is not a single ritual mentioned in the Vedas that could convert a person of other religion to Hindu,” he goes on to add.
“Everyone has the right to choose which religion they want to follow, just the same way as every Quora user has the right to follow the person they want to! We’re born human before we’re born Muslim or Christian, religion is a choice not a duty,” Bishnoi writes in another answer in June 2017.
Religion of Terrorism
In one of his answers, he says: “A religion who thinks that increasing their followers would grant them a higher level in the society cannot be classified as a religion, especially those for whom killing other religion’s followers would grant them a ticket to heaven. I’m not pointing at anyone. I’m not pointing at any religion. My words are enough for that.”
His answer to a question: “What is your view on ‘terrorism has no religion’,” was, “Rubbish!”
“As far as what I know and what I’ve seen and concluded is that there is a direct relationship with religion and Terrorism,” he says. He goes on to quote an ‘international leader’ whom he refused to name: “Every Muslim may not be Terrorist, true. But how’s it that every Terrorist is a follower of Islam.”
“Everyone knows how much Theresa hates Islam, how much America hates the word Islam and research shows that most Americans will not help a woman in need if he knows that she’s a Muslim,” Bishnoi adds.
In another answer, he goes on to claim that Hinduism is the best religion as it sought ways to control population when others tried to increase it. “Hinduism certainly was the most developed religion because 1000 years before when people of other religion were promoted to have 7 babies, 15 babies to grow their own football team, Hinduism tried to find new ways to stop over-population,” he says.
“What they thought was-You produce 4 babies, you 4 babies produce 4 babies and their babies produce another 4 babies and no one has yet died! So the entire population would be of 16 and suppose there are 160 families in the village which continue the tradition, we have 160*16=2560 babies in a small village of 16 km 2. They didn’t have copper-T at that time and so they banned the meeting of male and female before marriage. But some people took things in the wrong way and started rituals such as Sati, dowry which has nothing to do with all these,” he adds to his answer.
Cut to 2021, Niraj Bishnoi has been apprehended in the Bulli Bai app case for a clear hate crime against women. Despite his claims of having read the Bhagavad Gita and following the teachings of Lord Krishna, he allegedly developed the Bulli Bai app in which photographs of Muslim women were taken from social media and uploaded to ‘auction’ them online.