Bulli Bai app case: Mastermind’s intention was to get publicity, make own identity, says police

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New Delhi, Jan 7: The investigation within the ‘Bulli Bai’ utility case has up to now instructed that the intention of the mastermind was to get publicity and make an id of his personal, the Delhi Police mentioned on Friday. The probe has up to now not revealed anybody else’s involvement in motivating Niraj Bishnoi (21) into doing such actions and his motion might be attributed to the kind of social media content material he consumed, it mentioned.

Police officers mentioned there’s a chance about his alleged involvement within the earlier ‘Sulli Offers’ case and that they’re investigating the matter. “There’s a chance that his community is linked to Sulli Offers. The gadgets utilized by him are being scanned. By way of him, we would additionally attain the culprits of Sulli Offers,” they mentioned. Apparently, in a case registered in southwest district the place a girl journalist had registered a criticism, Bishnoi had allegedly posed as a media individual and tried to mislead the investigation by the cyber cell unit, police mentioned.

“Through the Sulli Deal probe, he tried to mislead our staff by calling them on WhatsApp by impersonating himself as a media individual. He additionally tried to extract details about the developments within the probe. We discovered this by means of his telephone information,” the police official mentioned. Bishnoi, the creator of the Bulli Bai utility, had earlier additionally created an account on Twitter making lewd remarks on the image of a complainant and even tweeted concerning the public sale of the individual, police mentioned on Friday. One among such accounts got here into mild when the Sulli Offers case was underneath investigation. By way of this deal with, he had tried to plant some info relating to the potential propagator/originator of the Sulli Offers app, they mentioned. With the arrest of the engineering pupil, the Delhi Police had mentioned it has solved the case associated to a whole bunch of Muslim girls being listed for “public sale” on the Bulli Bai app on the Github platform. Throughout interrogation, it was discovered that Bishnoi had earlier created varied Twitter handles with the preliminary title of “giyu” which is a gaming character.

The handles have been recognized as @giyu2002, @giyu007, @giyuu84, @giyu94 and @giyu44, a senior police officer mentioned. “The account @giyu2002 has been discovered related to an FIR registered on the Kishangarh Police Station in southwest Delhi. On this case, from this Twitter account, he had made lewd remarks on the image of a complainant and even tweeted concerning the public sale of the identical,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Cyber) Ok P S Malhotra mentioned. The account @giyu44 was created by the accused on January 3, 2022 with particular agenda to demean the arrests by Mumbai Police within the Bulli Bai app case and to throw an open problem to legislation enforcement companies to nab him.

Bishnoi had additionally tried to indicate his id from Nepal, police mentioned. “The account @giyu007 got here into mild when the Sulli Deal case was underneath investigation. By way of this deal with, he had tried to plant some info relating to the potential propagator/originator of Sulli Offers app,” police mentioned. Throughout this time, Bishnoi additionally created a faux profile of a lady and tried to speak to the investigating company as a information reporter. Additional, he got here in touch with varied information reporters and tried to plant his misinformation together with his nefarious objectives, the DCP mentioned.

The daddy of the accused runs a ration store and the accused has two elder sisters, police mentioned. Additional investigation is underway, he mentioned. Bishnoi, a resident of Jorhat who research laptop science engineering in Bhopal, was the fourth individual to be arrested for his or her alleged involvement within the case. The opposite three, nabbed by Mumbai Police, embody a 19-year-old lady from Uttarakhand, additionally alleged to be a first-rate accused within the case. The Bulli Bai app was developed in November final 12 months and up to date in December. Bishnoi was additionally keenly monitoring social media. Bishnoi disclosed throughout his interrogation that he created the “Bulli Bai” app on Github in addition to the @bullibai_Twitter deal with and others too, police mentioned. The Twitter account was created on December 31. PTI

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