Misogynist app case solved with arrest of mastermind

New Delhi/Guwahati: An engineering student believed to be the “mastermind” and creator of the “Bulli Bai” app was arrested on Thursday from Jorhat in Assam and brought to the national capital where he confessed his role, Delhi Police said.

With the arrest of Niraj Bishnoi, 21, Delhi Police said in a statement it has solved completely the case related to hundreds of Muslim women being listed for “auction” on the “Bulli Bai” app on the Github platform.

Bishnoi, a resident of Jorhat who studies computer science engineering in Bhopal, is the fourth person to be arrested for their alleged involvement in the app. The other three, nabbed by Mumbai Police, include a 19-yearold woman from Uttarakhand, also alleged to be a prime accused in the case. “You have arrested the wrong person, slumbai police,” Bishnoi had tweeted a day before his arrest.

A team from Mumbai was also on its way to arrest Bishnoi but got delayed because of flight schedules and its Delhi counterparts got there an hour earlier, a Mumbai Police official said. The cyber cell will seek Bishnoi’s custody later, the official said. Delhi Police said the “Bulli Bai” app was developed in November last year and updated in December. —(PTI)