Deputy Commissioner of Police (IFSO) KPS Malhotra said during preliminary interrogation, the accused admitted that he was a member of a group on Twitter and the idea to defame and troll Muslim women was shared there.
While social media platforms are required to comply with Indian law and have a grievance officer posted in India, US-based software collaboration platform Github says foreign law enforcement seeking information will only get it if they follow a complex path involving the US Justice system.
Shweta Singh, 18, a resident of Uttarakhand’s Udham Singh Nagar district, and engineering student Vishal Kumar Jha, 21, were earlier arrested a day before.
The cyber cell of the Mumbai police which is probing the ‘Bulli Bai' app case arrested an 18 year-old woman from Uttarakhand, along with a 21-year-old engineering student from Bengaluru.
The incident went viral when a woman journalist shared an image of her being sold on the Bulli Bai app as ‘deal of the day’.