Sulli Deal-Like Incident Repeats, Photos of Muslim Women Uploaded On App. Police Begins Probe

MP Priyanka Chaturvedi said that she had raised the matter with Mumbai Police and demanded arrest of the culprits at the earliest. 

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New Delhi: Photos of hundreds of Muslims women were uploaded on an app using the hosting platform GitHub, said Shiv Sena Member of Parliament Priyanka Chaturvedi on Saturday. The MP said that she had raised the matter with Mumbai Police and demanded arrest of the culprits at the earliest. 

“Have spoken to @CPMumbaiPolice and DCP Crime Rashmi Karandikar ji. They will investigate this. Have also spoken to @DGPMaharashtra for intervention. Hoping those behind such misogynistic and sexist sites are apprehended,” Chaturvedi wrote in a tweet.

Have spoken to @CPMumbaiPolice and DCP Crime Rashmi Karandikar ji. They will investigate this. Have also spoken to @DGPMaharashtra for intervention. Hoping those behind such misogynistic and sexist sites are apprehended. https://t.co/Ofo1l9dgIl

— Priyanka Chaturvedi🇮🇳 (@priyankac19) January 1, 2022

“I have repeatedly asked Hon. IT Minister @AshwiniVaishnaw ji to take stern action against such rampant misogyny and communal targeting of women through #sullideals like platforms. A shame that it continues to be ignored,” she added. 

Responding to the development, the Mumbai Police said that they have taken cognizance of the matter and concerned officials were asked to take action. An official said that the Mumbai cyber police has initiated a probe in connection with the objectionable content. 

A social media user said that the said app “Bulli Bai” worked just the same way as Sulli deals did. Once you open it, you randomly find a Muslim woman’s face being displayed as Bulli Bai, the user added. 

Muslim women with a strong presence on Twitter have been singled out and their photos have been singled out and their photos are being displayed as Bulli Bai, siad another Twitter user.  

A journalist, who was one of the woman named on the app said that Muslim women have had to start the year with a “sense of disgust.” 

Two FIRs were filed by the Delhi and Uttar Pradesh police in the Sulli Deals incident last year, after photos of Muslim women were misued, but no concrete action has been taken so far agiasnt the perpetrators in the case.