Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Delhi’s Patiala House Court Pankaj Sharma has refused bail to Neeraj Bishnoi, a 21-year-old engineering student arrested from Assam within the Bulli Bai app case. And has said that “It is an insult to communal harmony to guard a select community and society.”
The Court said that “The facts disclose that accused created the App “bullibai” Woman journalists and celebrities of a selected community who are famous on social media are targeted and they are projected in a bad light with an objective to insult and humiliate them by objectification,”
While making the arrest, the police had claimed that he was the conspirator and creator of the Bully by app on GitHub.
From the facts, it seems that the accused has created the app “Bullibai” where women journalists, celebrities and a selected community who are famous on social media are targeted and are being unfairly abused to humiliate them.
And at the identical time, “In this app created by the accused, a campaign of defamation was being run against these women with derogatory content and objectionable content of communal color.”
The investigation of this case is within the preliminary stage also the police is engaged in collecting the evidence as well as trying to identify the involvement of other persons during this heinous act. Accordingly, seeable of the enormity of the allegations and the also stage of the investigation, no ground is formed for the grant. In view of all this, bail has been denied.”
Neeraj Bishnoi hails from the Jorhat area of Assam and is pursuing B.Tech from Vellore Institute of Technology, Bhopal. He’s an engineering student. He was sent to 7-day police custody earlier this month because of the Balli Bai allegation.
Neeraj was produced by the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations Unit (IFSO) at the magistrate’s house last night.
The Bulli Buy app is incredibly like the ‘Sully Deal’, which resulted during a controversy last year by offering ‘Sulis’. Troll was a derogatory term used for Muslim women.
The subsequent sections were imposed on the accused –
{Sections 153A – (promoting enmity on grounds of religion), 153B – (accusation prejudicial to national integration), 295A – (insulting religious beliefs), 354D – (pursuing), 509 – (gesture or act intended to outrage the modesty of a woman), 500 – (criminal defamation) of the IPC and section 67 of the Data of Technology Act (publishing or transmitting obscene material in an electronic form)}.
The matter came to light when a variety of prominent Muslim women found themselves up for auction on the Bulli Buy app hosted by Github. Several women found that their images were put up for “auction” on the app which was also tampered with.
Women mainly involved during this –
Women Journalists, Social Activists, Lawyers, and Famous Women in Social Media.
In a report submitted by NDTV, there have three accounts in the Bully by app. Jha on this app. Opened an account under the name Khalsa Supremacist, then on December 31, he also changed the names of the accounts to make them appear as if they allegedly belonged to a particular community.
