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Bulli Bai app targeting Muslim women on social media

NEW DELHI: Nearly six months when an uncomplimentary ‘Sulli Deals’ site that allegedly uploaded photos of girls for auction while not their consent surfaced on the hosting platform ‘GITHUB’, a replacement mobile application targeting Muslim women by the name of Bulli bai has emerged.

The difference of opinion closes the ‘Bulli Bai’ popped abreast of Jan 1 after some powerful women active on social media, especially from the Muslim community, complained that their doctored photos were uploaded for sale online on the Github hosting platform.

Several women together with journalists, social workers, students, and notable personalities, were among those who complained against the Buli bai demanding strict action against its creators.

The investigation conducted by the Cyber cell of metropolis and metropolis Police found that many Muslim ladies were listed for “auction” on the app with pictures sourced while not permission and doctored.

What did the Bulli Bai app do? The app displayed doctored faces of powerful Muslim women with an uncomplimentary tagline that scan “Sulli deal of the day”. it’s to be noted that ‘Sulli’ is a derogatory term used against women.

The app creators would use the photos illegally obtained from the ladies’ social media handles and convert people to require part in the “auction”.

“Bulli bai” was conjointly being promoted by a Twitter handle with the name @bullibai, with its display picture of a “Khalistani supporter”, and saying women are often reserved from the app. Is ‘Bulli Bai’ a clone of Sulli Deals? The Bulli Bai app appeared to be a clone of Sulli Deals that had triggered the same row last year.

Once opened, a Muslim woman’s face was randomly displayed as Bulli Bai. Muslim ladies with a powerful presence on Twitter, together with journalists, are singled out and their photos uploaded. The matter was dropped at the notice of IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw by knife Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on Twitter.

Chaturvedi said she has raised the matter with the metropolis Police, and demanded that the culprits ought to be in remission at the earliest.

Action against Bulli bai and its creators Taking cognizance of the matter, the data and Technology Ministry has currently taken swift action against the Bulli Bai app its creators and an FIR has been lodged by the metropolis Police during this connection.

According to reports, Delhi Police had registered a case that supported a grievance filed by a woman journalist alleging that she was being targeted by an unidentified cluster of individuals on a mobile application named `Bulli Bai` created on the GitHub platform.

AN FIR has been registered beneath section 509 in the Cyber police office of the South-East district, Delhi Police said. This came six months when the Delhi Police registered a case in connection with photos of Muslim ladies being uploaded and “auctioned” on a Github app.

Union Minister for physics and data Technology Ashwini Vaishnav took to Twitter to tell that action has been taken and also the GitHub user behind the `Bulli bai` app had been blocked and “further action” was being coordinated. “GitHub confirmed interference the user this morning itself.

computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) and Police authorities are coordinating more action,” Vaishnav said during a reply to a tweet by knife Sena`s Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi.

The case against the Bulli Bai app metropolis Police on Sunday said that a grievance was filed by a woman at the Cyber police office wherever she alleged that her photograph was uploaded on a website to focus on her. The complainant is aforesaid that she was seeking immediate registration of FIR and immediate investigation against unknown folks that are seeking to harass and insult Muslim ladies on social media and also the internet.

The police had earlier said that the matter has been taken cognizance of and anxious officials are directed to require appropriate action.

In her complaint, the lady told police that she was appalled to search out out that a website/portal “had a doctored picture of the American state in AN improper, unacceptable, and clearly lewd context.

“Social media being a form of public expression can’t be accustomed demean and derogating women in general and Muslim women in particular by woman hater sections of society.

this can be nothing in need of online harassment and also the tweet referred to herein is as such liable for criminal action,” she said. “The ‘Github` hosting platform is violent, threatening, and assumed to produce a sense of concern and shame in my mind, also as in the minds of girls in general, {and the|and therefore the|and conjointly the} Muslim community whose ladies are being targeted during this hateful manner.

In fact, this website has been targeting different Muslim women as well,” alleged the complainant. Outrage over Bulli bai app Opposition leaders have also condemned the act and have known out the govt and metropolis Police to require strict action. “It is unacceptable that this project of dangerous anti-Muslim misogynism is back.

The appalling indictment of the state of affairs, that not solely was nothing done last time, however, these forces also felt bold to repeat the whole issue as a result of the institution backs them,” Congress MP Karti Chidambaram tweeted.

“Disgusting. Inaction by authorities has made these criminals brazen. Ashwini Vaishnav, National Commission for ladies and metropolis Police please investigate and take strict action,” AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said.

communist party of Bharat (CPI) leader Kavita Krishnan said,” In rage and commonality with Ismat Area, Samreen and different Muslim women being subjected to vile online “auctions” by rape-minded Sanghi filth.

Deliberate Police inaction on #sullideals has bold the terrorists to resurface as #bullibai.” The National Commission for ladies (NCW) conjointly took a suo moto cognizance of the “defunct website known as `Sulli Deals`.

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