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 …
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 …
Twenty-one-year-old engineering student and ‘Bulli Bai’ app creator Neeraj Bishnoi, who was arrested by the Delhi Police from Assam, has owned up to creating the platform for Muslim women and putting them for fake auction, but has shown no regret for his actions. Bishnoi was known to be a bright student, but he had never attended in-person classes at his …
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 …
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