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| Police in India say they have arrested three people involved in an online app that shared pictures of Muslim women for a virtual “auction” | |
| 2022-01-06 | |
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Indian police said on Wednesday they had arrested three people involved in an online app that shared pictures of Moslem women for a virtual "auction" in an apparent case of communal harassment. Pictures of dozens of women had been used without their consent and doctored to create an open source app called ’Bulli Bai’ - a derogatory term to describe Moslem women - on the GitHub platform before it was taken down. Police in the western city of Mumbai, which is investigating the case, said they had arrested three people, two 21-year-old men and an 18-year-old woman. "We are investigating whether this was a part of a larger conspiracy," Mumbai’s Police Commissioner Hemant Nagrale told news hounds. Among those targeted were several Indian Moslem journalists, including Ismat Ara who filed and then shared on social media a police complaint that said the app was "clearly aimed at insulting Moslem women." Moslems make up around 14 percent of India’s 1.3 billion population, and sections of the minority community have been at odds with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and its Hindu right-wing supporters, including over a controversial 2019 citizenship law that triggered large-scale protests. Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) described the app as "absolutely chilling" and urged Indian authorities to take action. "To do nothing would be to condone an extremely The GitHub platform shut down a similar app last year that had used pictures of Indian Moslem women.
The cyber cell of Mumbai police had earlier arrested Shweta Singh (19), alleged to be the main culprit, from Uttarakhand, and engineering student Vishal Kumar Jha (21) from Bengaluru in connection with the case. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
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| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-06 21:55 |
| #8 Merrick, not sure if that is real or not. Buck-Fifty on real. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-01-06 17:58 |
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| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-06 11:50 |
| #6 You brought them to our attention, my dear. Noting that the main accused is named Shweta Singh adds verisimilitude to the idea. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-01-06 09:23 |
| #5 ^ Thanks, TW. Yeah... that at least makes it more interesting than some dropout unemployeds taking it out on moslems. If the 'sleuths' are smart they'll find a way to pin this on the enemy himself. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-01-06 03:12 |
| #4 About that someone, Dron: yesterday’s report on the subject collected three links, the last of which said "Bulli Bai" was promoted by a Twitter handle with the name @bullibai, with its display picture of a "Khalistani supporter"... And we know that the Kalistaners take Pakistan’s thirty pieces of silver, making this an even more interesting play, at least to me. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-01-06 03:01 |
| #3 He comes from a long line of Bastards. |
| Posted by: Clater Thelet2575 2022-01-06 02:51 |
| #2 What is most illuminating is that a lead reporter from the Reporters Sans Frontieres has chosen to retain the name Bastard. As for the storm in the teacup, mehh. It's tit for tat. The moslems have these whatsapp groups and online pages listing all neighborhood non-moslem girls as some sort of harassment targets. There's even forums and darknet groups for upskirts, rapes, molestation, bullying, what have you. So someone went and did it to them. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-01-06 02:17 |
| #1 A new criminal enterprise in the region is it ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-01-06 00:37 |
