New Delhi: Bulli Bai mastermind Shweta Singh was held by Mumbai Police on Tuesday from Uttrakhand. She was held after the arrest of 21-year-old engineering student Vishal Kumar from Bengaluru.
On Monday, Mumbai Police had filed an FIR against unknown people based on complaints women from a particular community were being targeted and pictures of women were uploaded for auction on the ‘Bulli Bai’ application hosted on the GitHub platform.
A case was registered against the ‘Bulli Bai’ app developers and Twitter handles on Sunday by the West Mumbai Cyber Police for promoting such act.
All you need to know about her:
# She had lost both her parents, her father died due to covid-19 last year and on 2011 she had lost her mother to cancer.
# Shweta is the second among the three sister and has one brother.
# The 18-year old has cleared her class 12 examination.
# The four siblings survive on Rs 3 thousand that they get from Uttrakhand government.
# She was using fake Twitter handle named as- JattKhalsa07. This particular Twitter handle was being used for uploading hate posts and objectionable photos and comments.
# According to reports, she was allegedly working on the instructions that was given to her by her friend based in Nepal.
# It was also revealed that a Nepal national, identified as Giyou, was guiding her to do so.
The main accused, Shweta Singh’s name was revealed by the 21-year-old engineering student who was arrested in Bengaluru. He said that she was in touch will all the people who were involved in this activity.
According to reports, 21-yera-old, Vishal’s role was to edit pictures of women and then upload them on the app.
Meanwhile, Shweta Singh will be brought to Mumbai today and is likely to be produced in a magistrate’s court.
Bulli Bai App Case: 18-year-old Shweta Singh arrested by Mumbai Police