Third accused held in 'Bulli Bai' app case

The cyber cell of Mumbai police had earlier arrested Shweta Singh (19), alleged to be the main culprit, from Uttarakhand

The Mumbai cyber police Wednesday arrested one more student from Uttarakhand in connection with the 'Bulli Bai' app case.

The student, identified as Mayank Rawal (21), was nabbed from the northern state in the early hours of Wednesday, an official told PTI.

"Vishal Kumar has been remanded to police custody for seven days. Shweta Singh has been given five days transit remand... We have arrested another person from Uttarakhand and seeking transit remand," Mumbai Police commissioner Hemant Nagrale said.

"We will not be able to share more details as the case is sensitive in nature," he said.

The cyber cell had earlier arrested 19-year-old Shweta Singh, alleged to be the main culprit, from Uttarakhand, and engineering student Vishal Kumar Jha (21) from Bengaluru in connection with the case.

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The Mumbai police had registered a First Information Report (FIR) against unidentified persons following complaints that doctored photographs of hundreds of Muslim women were uploaded for ‘auction’ on the app called `Bulli Bai', hosted on the open-source software platform GitHub. While there was no actual `auction' or `sale', the purpose of the app seemed to be to humiliate and intimidate the targeted women, many of whom are active social media users.

The Mumbai cyber police station has also registered a case against the app's unidentified developers and Twitter handles which promoted it.

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