Last year the app was launched with the purpose of auctioning Muslim women with photographs sourced without consent and morphed. Sulli Deals and Bulli Bai apps, have just one modus operandi—to upload doctored and morphed pictures of Muslim women without their permission and to pass racial slurs while circulating the images. Both these apps were hosted on the hosting platform ‘GitHub’.
The police apprehended the accused, Aumkareshwar Thakur in a joint effort with the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) in Madhya Pradesh’s city of Indore.
"Om Thakur has been arrested from Indore. He is the main mastermind behind the Sulli deal app case," quoted KPS Malhotra, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations Unit, Delhi Police Special Cell.
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Om, as per the statement is a resident of Newyork City Township and did his BCA from IPS Academy, Indore. He developed the code for the app on GitHub and shared the application on Twitter. In January 2020, Thakur had joined “Trade Mahasabha” via the Twitter handle ‘gangescion’. The group would often troll Muslim women.
After the creation of the application, the members from the group uploaded photos of several Muslim women some of which were personalities.
Police identified and arrested Om on the basis of inputs given by the creator of Bulli Bai app, Niraj Bishnoi, three other accused in the case have also been arrested in the case so far.