Mumbai Court Grants Bail To Three Accused In Bulli Bai App Case

Bail was granted to Bulli Bai App creator, Niraj Bishnoi, and two others

The Bulli Bai App was accused of curating auctions of Muslim women through their doctored photographs.

Hundreds of Muslim women were on the lists in this app. It appeared to be a clone of ‘Sulli Deals’ which earlier this year triggered a row.

Apart from Bishnoi, the app creator, Aumkareshwar Thakur and Neeraj Singh, co-accused were granted bail by Additional Sessions Court Judge A.B. Sharma.

Neeraj Bishnoi, alleged to be the main conspirator, was arrested by the Delhi police from Assam and was brought to Mumbai on Thursday.

Under the charge sheet filed by the Mumbai police in March, Bishnoi was the first one to share the link to Bulli Bai app on his Twitter group. The charge sheet further added that other members of the group were fully aware that it would be used to target Muslim women.

He had also asked one of the co-accused to send photographs of 100 “famous non-BJP Muslim women” in order to put them up for auction through this app.

The cyber police in January this year registered an FIR against some relevant Twitter handles and that of the developer himself. Under the following offenses,

Sections 153A (promoting enmity on grounds of religion etc), 153B (imputations prejudicial to national integration), 295A (insulting religious beliefs),

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.