Dehli Police has sought information from Twitter approximately the account that first tweeted approximately the ‘Bulli Bai’ app and has requested it to take away offensive content material associated with the talk, resources knowledgeable on Monday.
Police has has also sought facts from GitHub platform about the ‘Bulli Bai’ app developer.
The case registered below section 509 (word, gesture or act supposed to insult the modesty of a female) of the Indian Penal Code in the Cyber Police station of South-East district has now been transferred to Delhi Police Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) unit.
The movement by Delhi Police was taken based totally on a criticism with the aid of a woman journalist at the Cyber Police Station where she alleged that her photograph became uploaded on a website to target her.
The complainant stated that she was looking for instantaneous registration of FIR and on the spot investigation in opposition to unknown those who are seeking to bother and insult Muslim girls on social media and the net.
Mumbai Police has also filed a first facts document (FIR) towards unknown folks based totally on lawsuits that doctored photographs of women had been uploaded for auction on ‘Bulli Bai’ application hosted with the aid of GitHub platform.
On Sunday, West Mumbai Cyber Police station registered a case towards the ‘Bulli Bai’ app builders and Twitter handles that promoted the app.
The case has been registered towards the unknown culprits underneath sections 153(A) (promoting enmity between special organizations on grounds of faith and so on), 153(B) (Imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration), 295(A) (deliberate and malicious acts, supposed to outrage religious feelings), 354D (stalking), 509 (word, gesture or act supposed to insult the modesty of a female), 500 (criminal defamation) of the Indian Penal Code and section 67 (publishing or transmitting obscene fabric in electronic shape) of statistics technology Act.
