The report quoting sources said the man identified as Neeraj Bishnoi was the mastermind who allegedly created the app on the GitHub platform.
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NEW DELHI — A man believed to be the main accused in the Bulli Bai case in which Muslim women were put up for an online ‘auction’, has been arrested from Assam, NDTV reported quoting top sources in Delhi Police.
The report quoting sources said the man identified as Neeraj Bishnoi was the mastermind who allegedly created the app on the GitHub platform.
The report further said that Bishnoi was also the main Twitter account holder that put out vile tweets with photographs of the women, many of them doctored.
Three persons including a young woman were earlier arrested in connection with the same case—that has caused outrage in the country.
A student Mayank Rawal was caught in the early hours of Wednesday, officials said.
Another accused—an engineering student from Bengaluru, Vishal Kumar Jha, was arrested earlier.
Earlier, Police said that the mastermind behind the egregious app is a teenager Shweta Singh from Uttarakhand. Singh controlled ‘Bulli Bai’ and three more apps, investigations by police have revealed.
The app called ‘Bulli Bai’ had put up images of Muslim women in India—among them prominent journalists and activists—for an online auction. Bulli Bia is a derogatory term used to describe Muslim women in India. A similar app and website called ‘Sulli Deals’ had surfaced earlier this year and had sparked massive outrage.