Police make third arrest in Bulli Bai app case

The third arrest has been made in the Bulli Bai app case as a 21-year-old student, Mayank Rawal, was arrested by the Mumbai cyber police from Uttarakhand.

The cyber cell of Mumbai police had earlier arrested Shweta Singh (18), alleged to be the main culprit, from Uttarakhand, and engineering student Vishal Kumar Jha (21) from Bengaluru in connection with the case.

The Mumbai police had registered a First Information Report (FIR) against unidentified persons following complaints that doctored photographs of hundreds of Muslim women were uploaded for 'auction' on the app called 'Bulli Bai', hosted on the open-source software platform GitHub.