Creator of app used for ‘online auction’ of Muslim women arrested from Assam, say Delhi Police

The main conspirator in the case related to an app on which more than 100 prominent Muslim women were listed for an “online auction” was arrested on Friday from Assam, the Delhi Police said, ANI reported.

The accused identified as Neeraj Bishnoi was arrested by the Delhi Police Special Cell’s Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations team. Deputy Commissioner of Police KPS Malhotra said that the 20-year old is the creator of the ‘Bulli Bai’ app that was used to target the women.

Bishnoi, an engineering student at the Vellore Institute of Technology in Bhopal is also the “main Twitter account holder of the app”, the police said. He lives in the Digambar area of Assam’s Jorhat city.

He is the fourth person to be arrested in the case and is being brought to Delhi.

Photos of the Muslim women were taken from their social media accounts without permission and displayed on the app for “sale” as “Bulli Bai” of the day last week. The app, which was hosted on web platform GitHub, has since taken it down following outrage on social media.

This was the second attempt in recent months to harass Muslim women in the country by “auctioning” them online.

In July, an app called “Sulli Deals” had posted hundreds of images of Muslim…

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