MUMBAI: The individuals concerned within the promotion of the `Bulli Bai’ app focusing on Muslim girls used names associated to the Sikh neighborhood in Twitter handles in an try to mislead, Mumbai Police stated on Wednesday.
This might have led to communal rigidity which the immediate arrests of three accused averted, the police stated in a launch.
Earlier, Mumbai police commissioner Hemant Nagrale had instructed reporters that police have been probing why such aliases have been used.
“Names associated to the Sikh neighborhood have been used to make it appear like these Twitter handles had been created by individuals from that neighborhood,” the police launch issued within the night stated.
The ladies who have been focused have been Muslim, so there was a risk that it might have created “enmity between two communities” and led to “breach of public peace”, it stated.
“Because the accused have been arrested in time”, this was averted, the police stated.
The app, hosted on the GitHub platform, displayed images of girls for “digital public sale”, the discharge stated, stating that this was much like the Sullideals app case which had surfaced six months in the past.
The accused shared photographs from the Bulli Bai app on Twitter through the use of handles like @bullibai_, @sage0x11, @jatkhalsa7, @wannabesigmaf, @jatkhalsa and @Sikh_khalsa11.
The knowledge on the Twitter deal with of the app claimed that its creator was “KSF Khalsa Sikh Pressure”, whereas one other Twitter deal with, “Khalsa Supremacist”, was its follower, the discharge stated.
Through the technical evaluation, police discovered the involvement of Vishal Kumar Jha (21), a second 12 months civil engineering scholar of Dayanand Sagar Faculty of engineering, Bengaluru, it stated.
The`Khalsa Supremacist’ deal with, allegedly utilized by Jha, talked about 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 laptop computer from him.
A senior police official instructed PTI that the Twitter deal with of the app was created by `prime accused’ Shweta Singh (18) who was arrested from Rudrapur in Uttarakhand.
She had handed her class 12 examination within the science stream and was making ready for becoming a member of an engineering course, he stated.
Mayank Rawal (21), the third accused, was additionally an engineering scholar, police stated.
