Delhi Police opposes bail plea of Bulli Bai app creator Niraj Bishnoi

The Delhi Police on Tuesday opposed the bail plea of Niraj Bishnoi alleged creator of the Bulli Bai app in the Patiala House Court saying that the investigation is at a very nascent stagePublic Prosecutor Advocate Irfan Ahmed appearing for Delhi Police submitted that the contents on the accuseds Twitter handles were derogatory and the accused was using words like Suli amp Buli to target women of a particular communityHe is the one who had created the website The Investigation Officer is still investigating and only one victim has turned up so far and there are many others who are yet to be found out he addedAfter taking notes of the submission Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana adjourned the matter for January 27 for further arguments and asked Delhi Police to file a fresh detailed reply in the matterAdvocate L Ojha appearing for Niraj Bishnoi submitted I was arrested as a suspect It is a bailable offence but during disclosure sections of the IT Act was slapped on me The Twitter handle which was used in the offence of committing crime my client has not used any derogatory languageHe also said that section 153A has been invoked in the FIR which is about communal harmony The complaint is by an individual and there is no group or community he addedBishnoi a 21yearold engineering student who is said to be the main conspirator and creator of the Bulli Bai app on GitHub and the main Twitter account holder of the app was arrested by Delhi Police Special Cells Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations unit IFSO from Assams Jorhat on January 5 2022Earlier the Magistrate Court had dismissed the bail petition of Niraj Bishnoi stating that a vilification campaign against women containing derogatory content and offending material having communal overtones was run on this App being created by the accusedChief Metropolitan Magistrate Pankaj Sharma had said that considering the enormity of the allegation and the stage of the investigation no ground is made out for grant of bail at this stageThe court also noted that the facts disclose that the accused created the App Bullibai where women journalists and celebrities of a particular community who are famous on social media are targeted and they are projected in a bad light with an objective to insult and humiliate them by objectificationDelhi Police had earlier said that during interrogation Niraj Bishnoi disclosed that the app was developed in November 2021 and updated on December 21 and he had said that he created one more Twitter account to talk about the appSeveral complaints were received by police stations in the country regarding the listing of Muslim women for auction on the Bulli Bai mobile application with photographs sourced without permission and doctored It has happened for the second time in less than a year The app appeared to be a clone of Sulli Deals which triggered a similar row last yearAn engineering student from Bengaluru a young girl from Uttarakhand and one of her friends have also been arrested by Mumbai Police in connection with the Bulli Bai app caseThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever