Ground Report | New Delhi: List of women on Bulli App; Nearly six months after the ‘Sulli Deals’, where photos of over 80 Muslim women were put up for sale by right-wing Hindu men, claiming anti-Muslim hatred and selective sexism, hundreds of Muslim women were uploaded by an unidentified group Went. On Saturday – an app using GitHub – by the name of ‘Bulli Bai’.
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Photographs of around 100 Muslim women, including prominent actress Shabana Azami, wife of a sitting judge at the Delhi High Court, as well as journalists, activists, and politicians, were auctioned on the app as “Bulli Bai” of the day.
Last time, no police action has been taken against the perpetrators in the case, despite two FIRs being registered – one in Delhi and the other in Uttar Pradesh and over a dozen complaints lodged at several police stations across the country.
Photographs of around 100 Muslim women, including prominent actress Shabana Azmi, wife of a sitting judge at the Delhi High Court, as well as journalists, activists, and politicians, were auctioned on the app as “Bulli Bai” of the day.
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The perpetrators did not even forgive Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani Nobel laureate. “Bulli Bai” was the second such attempt in less than a year, after the “Sulli Deals” in July, in which nearly 80 Muslim women were “for sale.” “In local lingo, both ‘Bulli’ and ‘Sulli’ are derogatory terms for Muslim women.
“However, this time the Punjabi language was used alongside English in the ‘Bulli Bai’ interface,” journalist Mohammad Zubair of fact-checking website AltNews told Al Jazeera.
List of women on Bulli App
Former journalist Hiba Beg
Quratulain Rehbar, a journalist from Jammu and Kashmir
Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani Nobel Laureate
Ismat Ara, a journalist in the capital, New Delhi
Fatima Zohra Khan, a lawyer based in Mumbai
Artist Sayema
While the Cyber Crimes Division of the Mumbai Police has also launched an investigation into the matter, it is shocking to see these apps even come to light. Even in the “Sulli Deals” case, no action has been taken to date despite two separate FIRs, NDTV reported.
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