By way of PTI
MUMBAI: The individuals concerned within the promotion of the `Bulli Bai’ app focused on Muslim girls used names associated with the Sikh group in Twitter handles in an try to lie to, Mumbai Police stated on Wednesday.
This can have resulted in communal rigidity which the instructed arrests of 3 accused prevented, the police stated in a unencumber.
Previous, Mumbai police commissioner Hemant Nagrale had informed newshounds that police have been probing why such aliases have been used.
“Names associated with the Sikh group have been used to make it seem like those Twitter handles were created via individuals from that group,” the police unencumber issued within the night stated.
The ladies who have been centered have been Muslim, so there was once a chance that it would have created “enmity between two communities” and resulted in “breach of public peace”, it stated.
“Because the accused have been arrested in time”, this was once have shyed away from, the police stated.
The app, hosted at the GitHub platform, displayed pictures of girls for “digital public sale”, the discharge stated, mentioning that this was once very similar to the Sullideals app case which had surfaced six months in the past.
The accused shared pictures from the Bulli Bai app on Twitter via the use of handles like @bullibai_, @sage0x11, @jatkhalsa7, @wannabesigmaf, @jatkhalsa and @Sikh_khalsa11.
The ideas at the Twitter maintain of the app claimed that its author was once “KSF Khalsa Sikh Pressure”, whilst some other Twitter maintain, “Khalsa Supremacist”, was once its follower, the discharge stated.
All through the technical research, police discovered the involvement of Vishal Kumar Jha (21), a 2nd 12 months civil engineering scholar of Dayanand Sagar School of engineering, Bengaluru, it stated.
The`Khalsa Supremacist’ maintain, allegedly utilized by Jha, discussed the person’s location as Canada, the discharge stated.
He additionally ran a YouTube channel referred to as “Tavasya Vats”.
Police recovered a cell phone, two SIM playing cards and a computer from him.
A senior police legitimate informed PTI that the Twitter maintain of the app was once created via `high accused’ Shweta Singh (18) who was once arrested from Rudrapur in Uttarakhand.
She had handed her elegance 12 examination within the science circulation and was once getting ready for becoming a member of an engineering route, he stated.
Mayank Rawal (21), the 3rd accused, was once additionally an engineering scholar, police stated.
