“Main conspirator” in the Bulli Bai app case has been arrested by the Delhi Police from Assam.
Neeraj Bishnoi, the “main conspirator” in the Bulli Bai app case has been arrested by the Delhi Police Special Cell’s IFSO team.
“Neeraj Bishnoi, arrested from Assam by Delhi Police Special Cell’s IFSO team, is the main conspirator and creator of ‘Bulli Bai’ on GitHub, and the main Twitter account holder of the app,” Delhi DCP (IFSO) KPS Malhotra informed.
He added: “He (Neeraj Bishnoi) has confessed, but most importantly, we have acquired technical evidence required from his laptop and mobile phone. Whole network has been busted.”
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20-years-old Neeraj Bishnoi is a resident of Digambar area in Assam’s Jorhat.
He is a B-Tech student at Vellore Institute of Technology in Bhopal.
A team of Delhi police has brought Bishnoi to Delhi.
Photos of hundreds of Muslim women were uploaded on an app called ‘Bulli Bai’, following which many took to social media to complain to the police.
Taking to Twitter, a journalist, who is one of the women named in the app, claimed that a group called “Bulli Bai” was created like “Sulli Deals” on GitHub, which would collect photos of Muslim women from their social media accounts and encourage people to participate in their ‘auction’.