NEW DELHI: An 18-year-old girl, the alleged mastermind behind the ‘Bully Bai’ app, was arrested by a Mumbai Police team from Rudrapur in Uttarakhand’s Udham Singh Nagar district on Tuesday.
SP Mamta Bohra said, “Shweta Singh, who passed her class 12th examination, was produced before a court in Uttarakhand, which sent her on transit remand till January 5. (City), Rudrapur.
The ‘bully bye’ case was registered on January 1 following complaints that photos of at least 100 prominent Muslim women and others were put up for ‘auction’ on an app hosted on the open source software platform GitHub. Details were uploaded.
Singh, who was preparing for the engineering entrance exam, lost her father to Covid last year and mother to cancer in 2011. She is the second of three sisters – both students. She also has a brother who is in class VIII. The siblings receive Rs 3,000 from the Vatsalya scheme launched for Covid orphans in Uttarakhand and Rs 10,000 from the solar manufacturing unit where their father was employed.
The cyber cell of Mumbai Police had arrested on Monday Vishal Kumar Jha (21), a second year engineering student from Bangalore, and brought him to Mumbai. Based on the information given by him, the police team led by the sub-inspector Suyog AmritkariSingh was arrested from Uttarakhand.
“The motive behind Singh’s act is not clear. During preliminary investigation by Mumbai Police, he claimed to have created a fake account, jattakhalsa07, on the instructions of a social media friend, giyou from Nepal. The fake account was used to post content on the ‘Bully Bai’ app.” Senthil A Krishna Raji, DIG, Uttarakhand Police Headquarters.
Bohra claimed, “Singh was in touch with Jha.
“She was associated with the people behind the website for the past six months. They follow the same ideology that has led to this hate crime. She was constantly posting hate comments. Her handle, JattKhalsa07, on Twitter posted offenses was involved in. objectionable photographs of several celebrities and social media activists with malafide intentions.”
on Tuesday, Jha from Bihar, was produced before the Bandra court, which sent him to police custody till January 10. The court also allowed searches in Jha’s room near his college in Bengaluru. Jha’s lawyer Dinesh Prajapati Told TOI that his client has been falsely implicated in the case. He also denied that Jha knew Singh.
College officials told TOI that Jha had called up the institution on Monday, stating that the police were calling him and he “didn’t do anything wrong”. A senior IPS officer from Bengaluru said, “Jha loaded the objectionable pictures using his mobile and laptop. It seems he is not the creator of the ‘Bully Bai’ app. He is uploading pictures of women from the Muslim community.” And editing them.” “We were not aware of the matter until the police announced his arrest in Mumbai on Tuesday. On Monday, Mumbai Police contacted us and said that they had come to detain a student in a cyber crime case. ” On Monday, Maharashtra’s Minister of State for Home and Information Technology Satej Patil had tweeted: “There seems to be a huge network behind such coordinated crimes and I am sure Mumbai Police will soon unearth the entire nexus which is against women.” Enabling such hate crimes. Apna Desh.”
Mumbai Police has booked sections 153A (promoting dissent), 153B (publishing false appeal), 295A (outraging the place of worship), 509 (insulting modesty of women), 500 (defamation), and 453D (pursuing). A case has been registered under Relevant sections of IPC and IT Act.
SP Mamta Bohra said, “Shweta Singh, who passed her class 12th examination, was produced before a court in Uttarakhand, which sent her on transit remand till January 5. (City), Rudrapur.
The ‘bully bye’ case was registered on January 1 following complaints that photos of at least 100 prominent Muslim women and others were put up for ‘auction’ on an app hosted on the open source software platform GitHub. Details were uploaded.
Singh, who was preparing for the engineering entrance exam, lost her father to Covid last year and mother to cancer in 2011. She is the second of three sisters – both students. She also has a brother who is in class VIII. The siblings receive Rs 3,000 from the Vatsalya scheme launched for Covid orphans in Uttarakhand and Rs 10,000 from the solar manufacturing unit where their father was employed.
The cyber cell of Mumbai Police had arrested on Monday Vishal Kumar Jha (21), a second year engineering student from Bangalore, and brought him to Mumbai. Based on the information given by him, the police team led by the sub-inspector Suyog AmritkariSingh was arrested from Uttarakhand.
“The motive behind Singh’s act is not clear. During preliminary investigation by Mumbai Police, he claimed to have created a fake account, jattakhalsa07, on the instructions of a social media friend, giyou from Nepal. The fake account was used to post content on the ‘Bully Bai’ app.” Senthil A Krishna Raji, DIG, Uttarakhand Police Headquarters.
Bohra claimed, “Singh was in touch with Jha.
“She was associated with the people behind the website for the past six months. They follow the same ideology that has led to this hate crime. She was constantly posting hate comments. Her handle, JattKhalsa07, on Twitter posted offenses was involved in. objectionable photographs of several celebrities and social media activists with malafide intentions.”
on Tuesday, Jha from Bihar, was produced before the Bandra court, which sent him to police custody till January 10. The court also allowed searches in Jha’s room near his college in Bengaluru. Jha’s lawyer Dinesh Prajapati Told TOI that his client has been falsely implicated in the case. He also denied that Jha knew Singh.
College officials told TOI that Jha had called up the institution on Monday, stating that the police were calling him and he “didn’t do anything wrong”. A senior IPS officer from Bengaluru said, “Jha loaded the objectionable pictures using his mobile and laptop. It seems he is not the creator of the ‘Bully Bai’ app. He is uploading pictures of women from the Muslim community.” And editing them.” “We were not aware of the matter until the police announced his arrest in Mumbai on Tuesday. On Monday, Mumbai Police contacted us and said that they had come to detain a student in a cyber crime case. ” On Monday, Maharashtra’s Minister of State for Home and Information Technology Satej Patil had tweeted: “There seems to be a huge network behind such coordinated crimes and I am sure Mumbai Police will soon unearth the entire nexus which is against women.” Enabling such hate crimes. Apna Desh.”
Mumbai Police has booked sections 153A (promoting dissent), 153B (publishing false appeal), 295A (outraging the place of worship), 509 (insulting modesty of women), 500 (defamation), and 453D (pursuing). A case has been registered under Relevant sections of IPC and IT Act.
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