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  • ‘Bulli Bai’ app case complainant receives danger calls on her telephone, Mumbai cyber police officers release probe

    Via PTI

    MUMBAI: Mumbai Police’s cyber division registered a Non-Cognizable (NC) offence towards an unidentified particular person after a complainant within the “Bulli Bai” app case informed them that she had won danger calls on her telephone, an professional stated on Monday.

    The complainant informed the police that the caller threatened her over the telephone and requested why she printed their names and filed FIR towards them, the professional on the Cyber police station within the Bandra Kurla Advanced stated.

    An NC case used to be registered towards an unidentified particular person on Saturday, he added.

    He stated the police are investigating how the caller were given the cell phone choice of the complainant.

    No FIR used to be registered and extra investigation is underway, the professional added.

    The case relates to the introduction of the ‘Bulli Bai’ app, which centered Muslim ladies by way of hanging up their photographs on-line for “public sale”.

    Mumbai cyber police had arrested Shweta Singh and Mayank Rawal from Uttarakhand and Vishal Kumar Jha from Bengaluru.

    The Delhi police’s particular mobile, which has additionally registered an FIR within the case, on January 6 arrested one Niraj Bishnoi from Assam.

    In keeping with the police, Bishnoi used to be the principle writer of the app.

  • ‘Bulli Bai’ app case: 21-year-old engineering scholar detained from Bengaluru

    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.”