The real story is another, Delhi police dashed to grab this man to the safety of Yogi’s UP police ashram, before Mumbai police can nab him. But most Pakistani media tell the story otherwise.
An open source app on the Github platform called ‘Bulli Bai’ — a derogatory term to describe Muslim women — had shared pictures of dozens of women without their consent before it was taken down.
KPS Malhotra, a police official in the capital New Delhi, said his team had arrested a 20-year-old engineering student from Jorhat in the eastern state of Assam after a probe that involved the state-run Computer Emergency Response Team.
“He is the person who had created the Bullibai app on Github. He had also created the Twitter handle @bullibai_ and other handles,” Malhotra said.
Police in the western city of Mumbai, who are also investigating the app, have separately arrested three people this week, including two 21-year-old engineering students and an 18-year-old woman.
Mumbai police said they were investigating whether the app, which did not involve any actual auctioning of people, was part of a “larger conspiracy”.
Several Indian Muslim journalists were targeted by the app, including Ismat Ara who filed and then shared on social media a police complaint on Sunday that said the app was “designed to insult Muslim women”.
