: ‘Online auction’ of Muslim women: Mumbai Police detain engineering student from Bengaluru #IndiaNEWS The Mumbai Police on Monday detained a 21-year-old engineering student from Bengaluru in connection

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‘Online auction’ of Muslim women: Mumbai Police detain engineering student from Bengaluru #IndiaNEWS
The Mumbai Police on Monday detained a 21-year-old engineering student from Bengaluru in connection with a new app on which more than 100 prominent Muslim women were listed for an “online auction�, ANI reported. The police have not revealed the man’s identity.The open source app, “Bulli Bai�, was hosted on web platform GitHub, which has since taken it down following outrage on social media. Photos of the women were taken from their social media accounts without permission and displayed on the app for “sale� as “Bulli Bai� of the day.Maharashtra minister and Congress leader Satej Patel on Monday said that Mumbai Police had achieved a breakthrough in the case.“Though we cannot disclose the details at this moment as it may hamper the ongoing investigation, I would like to assure all the victims that we are proactively chasing the culprits and they will face the law very soon,� he said in a tweet.This was the second attempt in months to harass Muslim women in the country by “auctioning� them online. In July, an app called “Sulli Deals� had posted hundreds of images of Muslim women and described them as “deals of the day�. Both “Bulli� and “Sulli� are derogatory words used to refer to Muslim women.The police in Noida and Delhi had...Read more

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