Sulli Deals, Bulli Bai app creators granted bail

The alleged masterminds behind the derogatory Sulli Deals and Bulli Bai apps were granted bail by a local court in the national capital on March 28 an official saidDeputy Commissioner of Police KPS Malhotra told IANS that the main grounds for granting the bail to the accused persons Sulli Deal app creator Aumkareshwar Thakur and Niraj Bishnoi for Bulli Bai app was that the Forensic Science Laboratory FSL results and replies from Intermediaries were still awaitedThe trial court had relied upon the evidence against the accused persons and no shortcoming in the investigation was pointed out Malhotra saidHe said that the court has granted bail on humanitarian grounds and considered that the alleged persons were firsttime offenders and continued incarceration would be detrimental to the alleged overall wellbeingThakur 25 a resident of Madhya Pradeshs Indore was apprehended by the Delhi Police on January 8The derogatory app had surfaced in July 2021 where photos of Muslim women were maliciously displayed for auctionThe Delhi Polices Cyber Crime Unit had registered an FIR under section 354A Sexual harassment and punishment for sexual harassment of the Indian Penal Code on July 8Meanwhile Bulli Bai came to light in January 2022 after a Delhibased woman journalist lodged a police complaint stating that she was being targeted by some unidentified group of people on a mobile application The app was hosted on GithubBulli Bai too had a number of pictures of women including journalists social workers students and famous personalities accompanied by derogatory content The app listed hundreds of Muslim women for auctionIts creator Niraj Bishnoi was arrested by the Delhi Police on January 6During his interrogation it emerged that he used to interact with various virtual identities on social media and used to engage in group discussionsIn July 2021 in one of the groups in which Bishnoi was a member another group member shared the details of the Sulli Deals That was the first time Bishnoi or other group members had heard about the appBased on disclosures made by Bishnoi and on the basis of technical analysis Thakur was identified and traced in Indore Later on January 8 a team of IFSO Delhi Police Special Cell went to Indore and arrested the accusedThakur was examined and his technical gadgets were subjected to preliminary analysis During the investigation he was subjected to interrogation in which he confessed that he had created the Sulli Deal app on GitHubThis 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