Bulli Bai App Case : Mumbai Police Arrest 21 Year Old Engineering Student

The accused, identified as Vishal Jha was brought from Bangalore, is likely to be produced in court for his remand soon.

A cyber police team led by DCP Rashmi Karandikar led the operation. The police has also detained a woman from Uttarakhand in connection with the case. She is alleged to be the main accused.

The case came to the fore after innumerable prominent Muslim women found their themselves up for auction on the App hosted by GitHub. A lot of women found that their doctored images were put up on the App for "auction."

The women included prominent journalists, social activists and lawyers.

According to an NDTV report, the lady was handling three accounts in the Bulli Bai App. Jha opened an account called Khalsa Supremacist, apparently to make it look like this was a Khalistani attack. Then, on December 31, he changed the names of the accounts to make them sound like they allegedly belonged to a particular community.

The Bulli Bai App is similar to the 'Sulli Deals' which had also resulted in a controversy last year by offering 'sullis', a derogatory word trolls would use for Muslim women. GitHub hosted even that App.