One From Bengaluru, Two From Uttarakhand Arrested In ‘Bulli Bai’ App Case So Far
Mumbai: An engineering student from Bengaluru, a girl from Uttarakhand, and a friend of hers have been arrested by the Mumbai Police in a ”Bulli Bai’ app case, informed the police on Wednesday.
“Three people have been arrested in the ‘Bulli Bai’ app case, including Vishal Kumar Jha and Shweta Singh. The third accused is Shweta’s friend,” said Hemant Nagrale, Mumbai Police Commissioner. Also Read: Woman Mastermind Behind ‘Bulli Bai’ App Detained In Uttarakhand: Mumbai Police
The Mumbai Police Commissioner also said that more people may need to be involved in the matter. Hence, he requested people with knowledge of the matter to come forward and share the details with the police.
Earlier, Uttarakhand DGP Ashok Kumar told ANI that Shweta Singh, who is allegedly the mastermind behind the app, comes from a very poor family. “Her father has died, it looks she did it for money,” said Kumar.
Responding to the personal details of the accused, the Mumbai Police Commissioner said, “We have caught these people from different places and some local authorities have given some versions about it, which I think was not required.”
“They were not aware of the details of the case. Generally, we don’t speak about cases of other states,” he added.
A Bandra court has sent Vishal Kumar to police custody till January 10 and Shweta Singh is on transit remand. Mumbai Police on Monday registered an FIR against unidentified persons based on complaints that morphed photographs of women were uploaded for auction on the ‘Bully Buy’ 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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