Bulli Bai: Muslim women again find themselves ‘sold’ on GitHub-hosted page
2 years, 11 months ago

Bulli Bai: Muslim women again find themselves ‘sold’ on GitHub-hosted page

CNN  

New Delhi CNN Business — The Indian government says it is investigating a website that purported to offer Muslim women for sale, the second time in less than a year that a fake online auction of this kind has sparked outrage in the country. “To ‘sell’ someone online is a cybercrime and I call on the police to take immediate action,” tweeted Congress leader Shashi Tharoor. “The perpetrators deserve exemplary & condign punishment.” On Sunday, India’s technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw tweeted that the government “is working with police organizations in Delhi and Mumbai on this matter.” “The entire website seems to have been designed with the intent of embarrassing and insulting Muslim women,” wrote journalist Ismat Ara in a complaint filed with Delhi Police cybersecurity authorities. At that time, Muslim women told CNN that the online abuse they are facing is indicative of the mood towardMuslims in India since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist BJP came to power in 2014.

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The Hindu Lit Fest 2024 | Muslim identity in the age of anti-Muslim hate
10 months, 4 weeks ago

The Hindu Lit Fest 2024 | Muslim identity in the age of anti-Muslim hate

The Hindu  

The vitiating atmosphere of hate and scrutiny faced by the minorities in India, especially the Muslim community, particularly in the last 10 years since the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power were explored in the first session at The Hindu Pavilion in The Hindu Lit For Life 2024 here at Lady Andal school in Chennai on January …

Udupi: 10 unanswered questions that police, Congress govt and college administrator need to answer
1 year, 4 months ago

Udupi: 10 unanswered questions that police, Congress govt and college administrator need to answer

Op India  

The case where 3 Muslim women secretly recorded Hindu women in the restroom in Netra Jyoti College in the Udupi district of Karnataka is one where one realises just how easy it is for the media and the Left-Islamist ecosystem to play politics over the safety of women. As the cabal used this statement, which even Sundar should have been …

SC agrees to examine 'Sulli Deals' app creator’s petition seeking to club FIRs registered against him across country
2 years, 4 months ago

SC agrees to examine 'Sulli Deals' app creator’s petition seeking to club FIRs registered against him across country

Firstpost  

A bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul issued notice to Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra police and sought their affidavits within three weeks on the issue New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine a petition filed by Aumkareshwar Thakur, accused of creating the ‘Sulli Deals’ app on GitHub, seeking clubbing of various FIRs registered against him …

Who is Mohammed Zubair, Indian journalist arrested by Modi gov’t?
2 years, 5 months ago

Who is Mohammed Zubair, Indian journalist arrested by Modi gov’t?

Al Jazeera  

Alt News co-founder has long been in the BJP’s crosshairs for his relentless debunking of fake news and false claims pushed by right-wing Hindu groups. Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of India’s leading fact-checking website Alt News, has long been in the crosshairs of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party for his organisation’s relentless debunking of fake news and false claims mostly pushed by …

Islamic YouTube channel Tahaffuz-e-Deen India spreads misinformation, fake news
2 years, 8 months ago

Islamic YouTube channel Tahaffuz-e-Deen India spreads misinformation, fake news

Op India  

Tahaffuz-E-Deen India is an Islamic media channel with large viewership on YouTube and other social media platforms. ‘Ludhiana court bomb blast mastermind was Hindu’ In a December 28 report, Syed Farooq Ahmed, a journalist with the Tahaffuz-E-Deen channel, falsely claimed that the mastermind of the Ludhiana court bomb blast was a Hindu. ‘Hindu terrorists organised Shobha Yatra on Hanuman Jayanti …

CID to probe derogatory posts on ‘Manglore Muslims’ page
2 years, 9 months ago

CID to probe derogatory posts on ‘Manglore Muslims’ page

The Hindu  

The investigation into derogatory posts on the ‘Manglore Muslims’ Facebook page has been handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department. The social media monitoring cell of Mangaluru city police noticed posts derogatory to Harsha, the Bajrang Dal activist who was murdered in Shivamogga, on the ‘Manglore Muslims’ Facebook page on February 21. Old issue Following derogatory posts about Kateel Durga …

Victimising women: How the right wing attacks Muslim women
2 years, 10 months ago

Victimising women: How the right wing attacks Muslim women

The Hindu  

Muslim women in India are no more a homogenous monolith than Muslim men, and there are divisions among them along the lines of caste, class and region as there are variations among Hindu women. ‘Sulli Deals’ outrage In July 2021, an open source app called ‘Sulli Deals’ on the GitHub web platform, intending to teach these young Muslim women a …

"Conduct Against Essence Of Womanhood, Designed To Disturb Communal Harmony": Delhi Court Denies Bail To Neeraj Bishnoi In Bulli Bai App Case
2 years, 10 months ago

"Conduct Against Essence Of Womanhood, Designed To Disturb Communal Harmony": Delhi Court Denies Bail To Neeraj Bishnoi In Bulli Bai App Case

Live Law  

A Delhi Court this week denied bail to Neeraj Bishnoi, a 21 year old arrested from Assam in connection with Bulli Bai App case observing that his sardonic conduct of targeting women journalists of a particular community on a social platform is not only against the essence of womanhood but also an act designed to disturb the communal harmony. "The …

#HSlut4MStud: How sexual targeting of Hindu women hasn't made it to news
2 years, 11 months ago

#HSlut4MStud: How sexual targeting of Hindu women hasn't made it to news

Op India  

Social media is a wonderful tool. Tumblr posts on rape fantasies of Hindu women These sexually explicit images of Hindu women are shared with hashtag ‘interfaithxxx’. Hindu women are mocked as ‘sanskari women’ who remove their clothes for Muslim men. Amazon’s Kindle is full of e-books on porn literature & even rape fantasies featuring Muslim men & Hindu women. Report …

Active Involvement In 'Bulli Bai' App; Act To Defame Womanhood: Mumbai Court Says Refusing Bail To Accused
2 years, 11 months ago

Active Involvement In 'Bulli Bai' App; Act To Defame Womanhood: Mumbai Court Says Refusing Bail To Accused

Live Law  

The three students accused in the Bulli Bai App Case have prima facie committed acts "defaming womanhood," the Bandra Metropolitan Magistrate Court observed in the detailed order refusing bail to Vishal Jha, Shweta Singh and Mayank Rawat. The other grounds for rejecting bail include – Gravity of the Offence The court observed that the Bulli Bai App was widely circulated. …

Delhi court dismisses bail plea of Sulli Deals creator
2 years, 11 months ago

Delhi court dismisses bail plea of Sulli Deals creator

The Hindu  

Noting that the impact of the alleged acts on society “cannot be reduced to negligible” when compared to other offences with harsher punishment, a Delhi court on Saturday dismissed the bail plea moved by the alleged creator of Sulli Deals, Aumkareshwar Thakur. Metropolitan Magistrate Vasundhra Chhaunkar, in her order, observed that the court cannot ignore the peculiar facts of the …

Bulli Bai App Creation "An Affront To Dignity Of Women Of Particular Community" : Delhi Court Denies Bail To Neeraj Bishnoi
2 years, 11 months ago

Bulli Bai App Creation "An Affront To Dignity Of Women Of Particular Community" : Delhi Court Denies Bail To Neeraj Bishnoi

Live Law  

A Delhi Court on Friday denied bail to Neeraj Bishnoi, a 21 year old arrested from Assam in connection with Bulli Bai App case observing that the act is an "affront to the dignity of the women of particular community and communal harmony of the society".Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Patiala House Court, Pankaj Sharma, denied bail to Bishnoi who, as …

'Sulli Deals' Auction App Creator Arrested from Indore, 'Admits' Idea Was to Defame Muslim Women
2 years, 11 months ago

'Sulli Deals' Auction App Creator Arrested from Indore, 'Admits' Idea Was to Defame Muslim Women

News 18  

Delhi Police on Sunday arrested a man from Madhya Pradesh who is allegedly the creator of the application ‘Sulli Deals’ which listed Muslim women for ‘auction’ with photographs sourced without permission and doctored. Police said that Thakur developed the code for the ‘Sulli Deals’ on GitHub and shared the app on Twitter. ‘Sulli Deals’ and the recently created ‘Bulli Bai’ …

From Bengaluru to Uttarakhand to Assam: Tracing the wide web spun by the four arrested in 'Bulli Bai' app case
2 years, 11 months ago

From Bengaluru to Uttarakhand to Assam: Tracing the wide web spun by the four arrested in 'Bulli Bai' app case

Firstpost  

The Delhi Police after a 12 hour operation arrested 21-year-old Niraj Bishnoi from Jorhat in Assam and said that with this the case in which Muslim women were harassed was solved completely The Delhi Police, on Thursday, made a fourth arrest in the Bulli Bai app case from Jorhat in Assam and have claimed that this development has solved completely …

My Mom's Photo Was Misused On Bulli Bai, No Daughter Should Be Writing This
2 years, 11 months ago

My Mom's Photo Was Misused On Bulli Bai, No Daughter Should Be Writing This

Live Law  

My mother is a writer and a literary historian. She is called "Apa" by almost everyone and is obsessed with red shoes.Yesterday, she was supposedly 'sold on an auction' of Muslim women hosted on a GitHub app. The Commodified Transaction of Perverse Pleasure Reading about this app that allowed sale of Muslim women as household help made me think of …

‘Bulli Bai’ app | Activists urge CJI to take up hate crime on women
2 years, 11 months ago

‘Bulli Bai’ app | Activists urge CJI to take up hate crime on women

The Hindu  

The online “auction” of Muslim women was a “carefully strategised hate crime”, says an open letter addressed to Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana that appeals to him to take suo motu cognisance of the incident. Photos of over 100 Muslim women, including prominent journalists, activists and thinkers, were uploaded on an app called “Bulli Bai” on Github and were …

Bulli Bai app conspiracy to persecute minority, promote violence against Muslim women: IWPC
2 years, 11 months ago

Bulli Bai app conspiracy to persecute minority, promote violence against Muslim women: IWPC

The Hindu  

The Indian Women's Press Corps on Tuesday termed the 'Bulli Bai' app "a well-planned conspiracy" to persecute the minority and promote gender-based violence and it hoped the government will take "strong steps" to stop the " auction of women's respect on the Internet ". The women journalists' body hoped the police will take "a prompt action" and arrest the accused …

'Sulli Deals' case | Delhi Police get Centre’s nod to seek details from GitHub
2 years, 11 months ago

'Sulli Deals' case | Delhi Police get Centre’s nod to seek details from GitHub

The Hindu  

The Ministry of Home Affairs has approved the Delhi police’s request to seek details from GitHub, the hosting platform, about ‘Sulli Deals’ under the MLAT, six months after a first information report was registered, an official said. A senior police officer said a request was sent earlier under the Code of Criminal Procedure to GitHub to share details about the …

Bulli Bai case: ‘Level of depravity is shocking’
2 years, 11 months ago

Bulli Bai case: ‘Level of depravity is shocking’

The Hindu  

The Human Rights Forum, through a statement on Tuesday, condemned the “auction” of Muslim women by the right wing trolls through an online platform, and expressed solidarity with the victims. Over 100 women journalists, activists and others active on social media have been targeted through a fake online auction site ‘Bulli Bai’, similar to another app ‘Sulli Deals’ which surfaced …

FIR registered in Bulli Bai app case
2 years, 11 months ago

FIR registered in Bulli Bai app case

The Hindu  

A case was registered in connection with the Bulli Bai app which saw photos of Muslim women, including Hyderabad activist Khalida Parveen and freelance journalist Ayesha Minhaz, being uploaded with derogatory messages. Acting on the complaint of Khalida Parveen, an activist who was also targeted on the app, the Hyderabad Cyber Crime Police booked a case under section 67 of …

Suspects held after fake online sale of Indian Muslim women
2 years, 11 months ago

Suspects held after fake online sale of Indian Muslim women

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — Police in India have detained a man and a woman alleged to be involved in the offering for sale of prominent Muslim women on a fake online auction website, according to government officials, in a case that has sparked outrage across the country. Photographs of more than 100 prominent Indian Muslim women, including journalists, activists, film stars …

Bulli Bai App Case: Engineering Student Sent To Mumbai Police's Custody Till January 10
2 years, 11 months ago

Bulli Bai App Case: Engineering Student Sent To Mumbai Police's Custody Till January 10

Live Law  

The Court of Metropolitan Magistrate in Mumbai's Bandra has remanded Vishal Jha, the 21-year-old engineering student arrested in the Bulli Bai App case, in Mumbai cyber police's custody till January 10, 2022. The FIR was registered against relevant handles and the developer of Bulli Bai for offences under Sections 153A, 153B, 295A, 354D, 509, 500 of the Indian Penal Code …

Bulli Bai App Case : Mumbai Police Arrest 21 Year Old Engineering Student
2 years, 11 months ago

Bulli Bai App Case : Mumbai Police Arrest 21 Year Old Engineering Student

Live Law  

The Mumbai Police has arrested a 21-year-old engineering student in the Bulli Bai App case regarding several politically vocal Muslim women being advertised for an online auction. The case came to the fore after innumerable prominent Muslim women found their themselves up for auction on the App hosted by GitHub. According to an NDTV report, the lady was handling three …

'Bulli Bai' row: Delhi Police transfers case to Special Cell Cyber Unit
2 years, 11 months ago

'Bulli Bai' row: Delhi Police transfers case to Special Cell Cyber Unit

India Today  

The Delhi Police on Tuesday said that the 'Bulli Bai' case had been transferred to the Special Cell Cyber Unit/Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations unit. On January 1, photos of hundreds of Muslim women were taken without their permission and uploaded on 'Bulli Bai' app on the GitHub platform for "auction". The controversy grabbed headlines after women on social media …

'Bulli Bai' row: Mumbai Police arrests main accused from Uttarakhand
2 years, 11 months ago

'Bulli Bai' row: Mumbai Police arrests main accused from Uttarakhand

India Today  

The Mumbai Police has arrested an 18-year-old woman, the main accused in the 'Bulli Bai' case — in which photos of Muslim women were uploaded on an app for 'auction', from Uttarakhand. A local court allowed the police a five-day transit remand to take the woman to Mumbai. City SP Mamta Bohra said: “The Mumbai police arrested the woman from …

Police inaction has emboldened goons, say women who were ‘auctioned’ online
2 years, 11 months ago

Police inaction has emboldened goons, say women who were ‘auctioned’ online

The Hindu  

Commercial pilot Hana Khan is now hesitant to share where she is posted. Ms. Khan, who is in touch with other women who were auctioned on the Sulli Deals app, said that they had all given up because “ ab kuch hona to hai nahi ”. ‘Sulli Deals’ and ‘Bulli Bai’ are applications and websites that had taken publicly available …

'Bulli Bai' app: Communal conspiracy against India's composite culture won't succeed, says Naqvi
2 years, 11 months ago

'Bulli Bai' app: Communal conspiracy against India's composite culture won't succeed, says Naqvi

The Hindu  

Amid an outrage over Muslim women being targeted through a dodgy app, senior BJP leader and Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi slammed those behind the incident and said any "cyber criminal communal conspiracy" against the country's composite culture will not succeed. Speaking to reporters, Mr. Naqvi, who is the Union minister for Minority Affairs, noted that the government has been …

'Bulli Bai' row on social media: App designed to 'auction' off Muslim women and the outrage that it has caused
2 years, 11 months ago

'Bulli Bai' row on social media: App designed to 'auction' off Muslim women and the outrage that it has caused

Firstpost  

The app, which has now been taken down, displayed more than 100 women ‘for sale’; Delhi and Mumbai Police file an FIR in the case The New Year began on a controversial note when photographs of more than 100 Muslim women, including prominent actor Shabana Azami, wife of a sitting judge of Delhi High Court, multiple journalists, activists and politicians, …

Police looking into app targeting Muslim women: Union IT Minister
2 years, 11 months ago

Police looking into app targeting Muslim women: Union IT Minister

The Hindu  

Following outrage over a new app that puts out a list of Muslim women up for ‘auction’ along with their photographs, Union Minister for Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw on Sunday said the government is working with the local police in Delhi and Mumbai on the matter. It is the second such instance in almost six months wherein Muslim women …

Photos of Muslim women uploaded on app; police begin probe
2 years, 11 months ago

Photos of Muslim women uploaded on app; police begin probe

The Hindu  

Photos of hundreds of Muslim women have been uploaded on an app using hosting platform GitHub, Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi said on January 1. https://t.co/Ofo1l9dgIl — Priyanka Chaturvedi January 1, 2022 “Have spoken to @CPMumbaiPolice and DCP Crime Rashmi Karandikar ji. A journalist, who is one of the women named in the app, said that Muslim women have had …

Bulli Bai: India’s Muslim women again listed on app for ‘auction’
2 years, 11 months ago

Bulli Bai: India’s Muslim women again listed on app for ‘auction’

Al Jazeera  

The app, now taken down, displayed more than 100 women ‘for sale as maids’, with victims saying they have little hope of action by police. After last July’s “Sulli Deals“, in which nearly 80 Muslim women were put up “for sale”, “Bulli Bai” was the second such attempt in less than a year. Ara filed a complaint on Saturday with …

'Shami getting abused by Hindu Indians' was a social media propaganda peddled by Pakistani handles? How it happened
3 years, 1 month ago

'Shami getting abused by Hindu Indians' was a social media propaganda peddled by Pakistani handles? How it happened

Op India  

The India-Pakistan cricket match in the T20 World Cup was mired with controversies even before it began. Source: Twitter Just at the time when anti-India elements were being called out on social media for celebrating Pakistan’s win, there were multiple tweets going around that Md Shami is being abused by some Indians. A Twitter User Counter-Propaganda Division did detailed research …

Probe in ‘Sulli deals’ case hits legal hurdle
3 years, 4 months ago

Probe in ‘Sulli deals’ case hits legal hurdle

The Hindu  

Nearly a month and a half after Delhi Police registered a case in connection with photos of Muslim women being uploaded without permission on an app called ‘Sulli deals’, investigators said the hosting platform, GitHub, has replied to their notice. Police sources said that a notice under Criminal Procedure Code was issued to GitHub to share the details of the …

De-Humanizing And Sexualizing Muslim Women: An Open Letter By 900 Activists/Lawyers Against 'Auction' Of Muslim Women On GitHub Platform
3 years, 5 months ago

De-Humanizing And Sexualizing Muslim Women: An Open Letter By 900 Activists/Lawyers Against 'Auction' Of Muslim Women On GitHub Platform

Live Law  

Nine hundred individuals and groups, including lawyers, journalists, academicians, activists and students, have endorsed an open letter demanding action against the online targeting of Muslim women. The open letter signatories condemned the repeated and systemic targeting aiming at 'de-humanizing and sexualizing Muslim women'. The signatories criticized the 'openly misogynistic hate speech against minority communities, which 'celebrates a rape culture against …

Sulli Deals: Indian Muslim women offered for sale in ‘auction’
3 years, 5 months ago

Sulli Deals: Indian Muslim women offered for sale in ‘auction’

Al Jazeera  

Photographs of more than 80 Muslim women put up for sale on an app are triggering outrage and calls for action. The creators of the platform offered visitors a chance to claim a “Sulli” – a derogatory term used by right-wing Hindu trolls for Muslim women – calling them “deals of the day”. “GitHub has longstanding policies against content and …

Delhi Police files FIR against ’Sulli Deals’ app creators; pulls up GitHub
3 years, 5 months ago

Delhi Police files FIR against ’Sulli Deals’ app creators; pulls up GitHub

Live Mint  

The Cyber Cell under Delhi Police has registered a first information report against unidentified individuals for uploading photos of Muslim women on an app. "Acting on a complaint received on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal regarding 'Sulli Deals' mobile application, a case under section 354-A of the Indian Penal Code has been registered on Wednesday and investigation taken up," said …

Police Register Case After Photos of Muslim Women Uploaded on App
3 years, 5 months ago

Police Register Case After Photos of Muslim Women Uploaded on App

News 18  

A case has been registered by the Cyber Cell of the Delhi Police after it received a complaint about an unidentified group uploading photos of Muslim women on an app, police said on Thursday. Delhi Police PRO, Chinmoy Biswal, said, "Acting on a complaint received on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal regarding 'Sulli Deals' mobile application, a case under section …

Delhi Police files FIR against creators of 'Sulli Deals' app, issues notice to GitHub
3 years, 5 months ago

Delhi Police files FIR against creators of 'Sulli Deals' app, issues notice to GitHub

India Today  

The Delhi Police has registered an FIR against unknown people for creating an app named 'Sulli Deals' on popular open-source platform GitHub. The app creators would illegally collect photos of Muslim women from their social media accounts, use them inappropriately on the app and encourage people to participate in their "auction". "Acting on a complaint received on National Cybercrime Reporting …

DCW notice to Delhi Police after photos of Muslim women misused on app
3 years, 5 months ago

DCW notice to Delhi Police after photos of Muslim women misused on app

India Today  

The Delhi Commission for Women issued a notice to the Delhi Police on Wednesday after photos of several Muslim women were uploaded without their consent on an app using GitHub by the name of 'Sulli Deals’ on July 4. Issued Notice to Police on a very serious matter of cyber crime where pictures of several Muslim women were displayed online …

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