APP CREATED LAST YEAR
A man in India who created an app in which more than 80 Muslims women were kept up for “sale” online last year, have been arrested.
The announcement has come after Delhi’s Lieutenant-Governor VK Saxena granted permission to try Aumkareshwar Thakur, 25, in court. From July 2021, the app- Sulli Deals, had been hosted on web platform GitHub.
Mr Thakur was arrested in January 2022, but was granted bail in March. Thakur,who holds a degree in computer applications.
Under various sections of the Indian Penal Code the police registered cases against him, India’s Information Technology Act and section 196 of India’s Criminal Procedure Code.
Section 196 deals with “offences committed against the state”, rather than an individual, and is generally invoked against high-ranking government officials which requires permission from the federal or state government to proceed.
The app had publicly available for pictures and created profiles for Muslim women, describing them as “deals of the day”.
Critics say online trolling of Muslim women has worsened in recent years in India’s polarized political climate.
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