Not only Bulli Bai, multiple handles used to 'divide' Sikhs-Muslims: Mumbai Police

Investigations by Mumbai Police have revealed that not only Bulli Bai but several other handles were used on social media platforms ostensibly intended to drive a wedge between Sikh and Muslim communitiesMumbai Police Commissioner Hemant Nagrale said that three persons have been arrested so far and the probe has shown other social media handles that were deployed to spread hate messagesThey are Bullibai_ Sage0x11 hmmaachaniceoki jatkhalsa jatkhalsa7 Sikh_Khalsa11 wannabesigmaf etc on microblogging platform TwitterSix months ago using the opensource software platform GitHub the app Sulli Bai was created on which pictures of Muslim women were posted and a similar modus operandi was carried out with the Bulli Bai app All these Twitter handles were purportedly linked to the Sikh community and as per the information available on Bullibai the KSF Khalsa Sikh Force had created the app Bulli Bai said the policeIt was also sought to convey that one Khalsa Supremacist was a follower of Bulli Bai app as per the investigations After getting information from GitHub the police teams have nabbed three accused including a 21yearold techie Vishal Kumar Jha a secondyear civil engineering student from Dayanand Sagar College of Engineering in BengaluruNagrale said that after the techies links came to the fore in the scam probe he was arrested by a Mumbai Cyber Police team from Bengaluru Deploying his technical expertise Jha managed to conceal his identity to a great extent and also claimed through Khalsasupremacist that he was living in Canada kept changing his name frequently besides running a YouTube channel Tavasya Vats said the policeThe Mumbai Police have also nabbed an 18yearold girl Shweta Anant Singh from Rudrapur Uttarakhand whos said to be the mastermind and Mayank Pradeepsingh Rawat 21 also from the same stateAs the entire issue snowballed into to a major political fracas on January 1 with strong reactions from several leaders from the Congress Nationalist Congress Party Shiv Sena ministers elected representatives prominent women activists and others the Mumbai Police lodged an FIR against unidentified persons including the unknown developers of the app and the Twitter handles which promoted itThe police action came after complaints were received from Muslim women that morphed pictures sourced without consent of hundreds of Muslim women including activists and professionals were being uploaded for auction on the Bulli Bai app that was hosted by GitHubThe police said the accused tried to convey an impression that the social media handles were created by the Sikh community targeted Muslim women in this manner and attempted to drive a wedge between the two communities but the prompt arrests have prevented any untoward situationAlso Read Bulli Bai app case Three arrested more could be involved says Mumbai police chief Hemant NagraleThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever