An official said, “We have written to GitHub several times but it has not responded… This is causing delays.”
The Home Ministry has approved the request of Delhi Police to seek details from hosting platform GitHub about ‘sully deals’ under the MLAT (Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty), six months after the first information report was filed, an official said. .
A senior police officer said that earlier a request was sent to GitHub under the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) to share information about the said application and its creators. However, he had to send a formal request through the MLAT route.
An official said, “We have written to GitHub several times but it has not responded…
They will also file an official request under MLAT in the ‘bully bye’ case after receiving the relevant documents, the official said.
In July, photographs of several Muslim women were uploaded to the ‘Sully Deals’ application, where they were “auctioned”.
Separate FIRs were filed in the matter in both Delhi and Noida, but no progress was made after GitHub failed to respond to the CrPC notices.
Recently another application ‘Bully Bai’ on GitHub put pictures of Muslim women in obscene context, after which a case was registered.
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