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India\u2019s police say they have arrested a 20-year-old man they suspect created an online app that shared pictures of Muslim women for a\u00a0virtual \u201cauction\u201d, as an investigation into the case of religious hatred widens.<\/p>\n
An open-source app on the Microsoft-owned Github platform called \u201cBulli Bai\u201d \u2013 a derogatory term to describe Muslim women \u2013 had shared pictures of dozens of women without their consent before it was taken down a week ago.<\/p>\n
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K P S Malhotra was a New Delhi police official who said on Thursday that his team had taken Niraj Bishnoi, an engineering student from Jorhat in northeastern Assam. This was after a probe that involved state-run Computer Emergency Response Team.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHe is the person who had created the Bulli Bai app on Github. He had also created the Twitter handle @bullibai_ and other handles,\u201d Malhotra said.<\/p>\n
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Police in the western city of Mumbai, who are also investigating the app, have separately\u00a0arrested three people\u00a0this week, including two 21-year-old engineering students \u2013 Vishal Kumar and Mayank Rawal \u2013 and Shweta Singh, a 19-year-old woman.<\/p>\n
Mumbai police said they were investigating whether the app, which did not involve any actual auctioning of people, was part of a \u201clarger conspiracy\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u2018Absolutely chilling\u2019<\/p>\n
Several Indian Muslim journalists were targeted by the app, including Ismat Ara who filed and then shared on social media a police complaint on Sunday that said the app was \u201cdesigned to insult Muslim women\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter today\u2019s arrest by @DelhiPolice, I hope the culprits behind this elaborate harassment of Muslim women, including journalists like myself, will ultimately be caught & punished,\u201d Ara said in a tweet on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) described the app as \u201cabsolutely chilling\u201d and urged Indian authorities to take action.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo do nothing would be to condone an extremely violent form of harassment, a form of intimidation that discriminates against an entire sector of the journalistic community and exposes those targeted to potential physical attacks,\u201d RSF\u2019s Daniel Bastard said.<\/p>\n
Singh, the youngest of those arrested so far in the \u2018Bulli Bai\u2019 app case, is from the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand.<\/p>\n
After completing her school-leaving exams last fall, the 19-year-old started using social media and made contact via it with right-wing Hindu users, according to a local police official.<\/p>\n
According to the official, Singh told him her actions were based in Hindu right-wing ideology. She had picked up this ideology on social media platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe came to social media to distract herself but she kept getting entangled in it,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n
Muslims, who account for about 14 percent of India\u2019s 1.3 billion population, have witnessed a rise in religious hatred and violence since Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014 and was re-elected with a bigger majority in 2019.<\/p>\n
In July last year, a similar app, named\u00a0\u2018Sulli Deals\u2019, also on GitHub, had put nearly 80 Muslim women \u201cfor sale\u201d. This case has not seen any arrests.<\/p>\n
Many women who have appeared on both of these apps have in the past criticised the rise of Hindu nationalism as well as the treatment of Indian minorities.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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