Via ANI
MUMBAI: Mumbai Police Cyber Mobile detained a 21-year-old engineering scholar from Bengaluru, in reference to the ‘Bulli Bai’ software case on Monday.
Mumbai Police has no longer printed the id of the suspect detained from Bengaluru but, except for for his age. Police have registered a case in opposition to unknown culprits underneath related sections of IPC and the IT Act.
Previous within the day, Mumbai Police had additionally filed a primary knowledge record (FIR) in opposition to unknown individuals in accordance with proceedings that doctored images of ladies have been uploaded for public sale on ‘Bulli Bai’ software hosted by means of GitHub platform.
On Sunday, West Mumbai Cyber Police station registered a case in opposition to the ‘Bulli Bai’ app builders and Twitter handles that promoted the app.
The case has been registered in opposition to the unknown culprits underneath sections 153(A) (Selling enmity between other teams on grounds of faith and so forth), 153(B) (Imputations, assertions prejudicial to nationwide integration), 295(A) (Planned and malicious acts, supposed to outrage spiritual emotions), 354D (stalking), 509 (phrase, gesture or act supposed to insult the modesty of a lady), 500 (legal defamation) of the Indian Penal Code and Segment 67 (publishing or transmitting obscene subject material in digital shape) of Data Era Act.
After each the Delhi and Mumbai police lodged FIR within the subject underneath related sections, Union Minister for Electronics and Data Era Ashwini Vaishnaw, in a tweet on Sunday mentioned, “Executive of India is operating with police organizations in Delhi and Mumbai in this subject.”