AGENCIES / Mumbai
In a major investigative success, Mumbai cyber police have detained a woman, believed to be the main accused in the ‘Bulli Bai’ app case, from Uttarakhand and also arrested an engineering student from Bengaluru in the case, officials said on Tuesday.
Police had earlier filed a first information report (FIR) against unidentified persons following complaints that photographs of Muslim women were uploaded for auction’ on the app hosted by GitHub platform.
In this connection, a team of the Mumbai cyber police detained a woman from Uttarakhand, an official said, adding that she was the main accused.
The official, however, refused to divulge any further details.
A crime branch team is in Uttarakhand and the woman’s questioning is on, he said.
She will be produced before a court there for transit remand and will then be brought to Mumbai, he said.
Earlier, the cyber police also arrested a 21-year-old engineering student, identified as Vishal Kumar, from Bengaluru in connection with the case, the official said.
A 21-year-old man from Bengaluru has been arrested by the Mumbai Police for being an accused in the Bulli Bai case, and has been sent to police custody.
The app was hosted on the US-based GitHub on December 31 (Friday). Doctored photos of at least 100 Muslim women, along with lewd remarks and comments, were posted online.
The Twitter handles were deactivated and the application was removed by the host on Saturday, a day after it was created.
Based on the complaint of a journalist who had first raised the issue, the Delhi Police also registered an FIR in the matter.