Bulli Bai
\n Mumbai
\nInvestigations by Mumbai Police in India have revealed that not only Bulli Bai, but several other handles were used on social media platforms, ostensibly intended to drive a wedge between Sikh and Muslim communities.
\nMumbai Police Commissioner Hemant Nagrale said that three persons have been arrested so far and the probe has shown other social media handles that were deployed to spread hate messages.
\nThey are: @Bullibai_, @Sage0x11, @hmmaachaniceoki, @jatkhalsa, @jatkhalsa7, @Sikh_Khalsa11, @wannabesigmaf, etc., on micro-blogging platform Twitter.
\nSix months ago, using the open-source software platform GitHub, the app Sulli Bai was created on which pictures of Muslim women were posted, and a similar modus operandi was carried out with the Bulli Bai app.
\nAll these Twitter handles were purportedly linked to the Sikh community and as per the information available on @Bullibai, the KSF Khalsa Sikh Force had created the app Bulli Bai, said the police.
\nIt was also sought to convey that one Khalsa Supremacist was a \u2018follower\u2019 of Bulli Bai app, as per the investigations.
\nAfter getting information from GitHub, the police teams have nabbed three accused \u2014 including a 21-year-old techie, Vishal Kumar Jha, a second-year civil engineering student from Dayanand Sagar College of Engineering in Bengaluru.
\nNagrale said that after the techie\u2019s links came to the fore in the scam probe, he was arrested by a Mumbai Cyber Police team from Bengaluru.
\nDeploying his technical expertise, Jha managed to conceal his identity to a great extent, and also claimed through @Khalsasupremacist that he was living in Canada, kept changing his name frequently, besides running a YouTube channel, Tavasya Vats, said the police.
\nAs the entire issue snowballed into to a major political fracas on January 1, with strong reactions from several leaders from the Congress, Nationalist Congress Party, Shiv Sena, ministers, elected representatives, prominent women activists and others, the Mumbai Police lodged an FIR against unidentified persons, including the unknown developers of the app and the Twitter handles which promoted it.
\nThe police action came after complaints were received from Muslim women that morphed pictures, sourced without consent, of hundreds of Muslim women, including activists and professionals, were being uploaded for \u2018auction\u2019 on the Bulli Bai app that was hosted by GitHub.
\nThe police said the accused tried to convey an impression that the social media handles were created by the Sikh community, targeted Muslim women in this manner and attempted to \u201cdrive a wedge between the two communities\u201d, but the prompt arrests have prevented any untoward situation.
\nThe Mumbai Police have also nabbed an 18-year-old girl, Shweta Anant Singh, from Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, who\u2019s said to be the mastermind, and Mayank Pradeepsingh Rawat, 21, also from the same state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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