New Delhi: A Delhi court has rejected the bail application of 21-year-old Neeraj Bishnoi, the main accused in the case of online harassment of Muslim women through a website called Bulli Bai.
Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana, who heard the bail application earlier on January 27, said that Bishnoi’s act of using derogatory social overtones against the women of a particular community was designed to enrage passion and cause ill-will amongst communities.
Denying bail to Bishnoi, the court said the “allegations against the applicant/accused are serious in nature”, Live Law reported.
“The sardonic conduct of the applicant/accused in targeting women journalists of a particular community, using offensive monkers with derogatory communal overtones, on a social media platform is not only an offence against the essence of womanhood but also an act designed to enrage passion and cause ill will amongst communities and disturb communal harmony,” the court said.
The order in this regard was released on Saturday.
Bishnoi, a B-Tech second-year student of an institute in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal, was arrested earlier on January 6 for allegedly creating a web-based application that hosted doctored photographs along with objectionable comments targeting the Muslim women.
The engineering student is a resident of Digambar Chuk under the jurisdiction of Jorhat Sadar police station in Assam’s Jorhat district.
The web app was hosted on US-based code sharing service GitHub earlier on December 31 last year, carrying at one point doctored photos of at least 100 Muslim women along with offensive remarks and comments.
Earlier on January 2, separate FIRs were registered in Delhi and Mumbai based on the complaints by the women who were among those targeted.