Satej Patil, the technology minister for the Maharashtra state, said late Monday that the cyber unit of the Mumbai Police has detained a 21-year-old engineering student from the southern city of Bengaluru in the neighboring Karnataka state and started the paperwork but haven't done much else against him. Police did not reveal the identity of the suspect, and it wasn’t clear whether the man had made the auction website.
Photographs of more than 100 prominent Indian Moslem women, including journalists, activists, film stars and artists, were displayed last weekend without their permission on a website and put up for fake auction. The women listed on the website also included a 65-year-old mother of a disappeared Indian student and Pak Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai
...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She is esteemed as an ambassador of international good will, even though she can't go home lest some fellow in a turban shoots her in the head again...The website, which was taken down within 24 hours, was called "Bulli Bai," a derogatory slang for Indian Moslems. Though there was no real sale involved, the Moslem women listed on the website said the auction was intended to humiliate them, many of whom have been vocal about rising Hindu nationalism in India and some of the policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The website was hosted on GitHub, a the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
-based coding platform. A company spokesperson said GitHub had taken down the user account which had hosted the website on its platform, and that it would cooperate with investigating authorities.
The fake auction unleashed outrage on Twitter after complaints from the victims, with several women posting screenshots after finding their photos listed on the website. Women rights groups and politicians from opposition parties urged the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party to take action against the online harassment of Moslem women, prompting India’s technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to promise strict measures.
Police in at least three states said they have opened investigations into the incident and filed criminal complaints against developers of the website, based on the complaints of the targeted women.
This was not the first time Moslem women were listed on a fake auction website. Last year in June, a similar website called "Sulli Deals," also a derogatory slang for Moslem women, was created for the same purpose. That website remained online for weeks and was only taken down by authorities after complaints from victims. Police opened an investigation into that case, but no one was arrested or detained.
The Mumbai Police has arrested engineering student Vishal Jha in connection with the Bulli Bhai app case The Mumbai Police had picked up Jha on Monday from Bengaluru in connection with the case relating to the auction of Moslem women on the social media.
The formal arrest was made today after he was detained by the Mumbai Police on Monday. Jha is currently being questioned by the police. The police said that the arrested student is a co-accused in the matter and was in touch with the main accused in the case. The police has also detained another individual in connection with case and is being questioned.
The police said a woman from Uttarakhand suspected to be the main accused has also been detained. The woman is also being questioned now.
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