Guwahati, Jan 10: Expressing utter dismay over the imposition of communal
colour to the BulliBai episode by a section of organisations and media
outlets, Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) urges everyone to wait
for logical conclusion of the online application that allegedly put a
number of celebrity women on auction, according to a Press statement.
It may be mentioned that over a hundred women, largely Muslim
personalities including journalists, were listed with doctored
photographs in the BulliBai app as readied for online selling as maids
in the first week of January 2022. Lately however the app was closed
down by the concerned authority.
Expressing shock over the matter, a number of women activists filed
police complaints in New Delhi and Mumbai under various sections of
laws dealing with gender bias, sexual harassment, religious enmity,
etc. Till date, four persons have been arrested suspecting their
involvement in the crime by the police from different places including
one from Jorhat in Assam.
All the detained are reportedly students including a young lady and
there is no such fact emerging out of the probe that they got involved
with the crime with no religious agendas with probable instigations
from the Hindu nationalists. PPFA demands a fair probe into the
episode and urges all concerned not to pollute the atmosphere with
communal discourses.
Mentionable is that Neeraj Bishnoi, a student of computer engineering,
who was lately arrested from Jorhat has been suspected to be the
mastermind behind the BulliBai app, developed on the hosting platform
GitHub. Initial reports suggest that Neeraj (who actually hails from
Rajasthan) has distorted sexual orientations and no way connected to
any Hindu nationalist outfit.
“The culprits should be punished under the law. But there is no logic
in nurturing the Hindutwa angle for the benefit of international media
markets as the app targeted mostly Muslim women. The conscious
citizens of Bharat should keep an eye over those anti-national
elements, so that they cannot hatch a conspiracy taking advantage of
the episode,” said a PPFA statement issued to the media.
colour to the BulliBai episode by a section of organisations and media
outlets, Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) urges everyone to wait
for logical conclusion of the online application that allegedly put a
number of celebrity women on auction, according to a Press statement.
It may be mentioned that over a hundred women, largely Muslim
personalities including journalists, were listed with doctored
photographs in the BulliBai app as readied for online selling as maids
in the first week of January 2022. Lately however the app was closed
down by the concerned authority.
Expressing shock over the matter, a number of women activists filed
police complaints in New Delhi and Mumbai under various sections of
laws dealing with gender bias, sexual harassment, religious enmity,
etc. Till date, four persons have been arrested suspecting their
involvement in the crime by the police from different places including
one from Jorhat in Assam.
All the detained are reportedly students including a young lady and
there is no such fact emerging out of the probe that they got involved
with the crime with no religious agendas with probable instigations
from the Hindu nationalists. PPFA demands a fair probe into the
episode and urges all concerned not to pollute the atmosphere with
communal discourses.
Mentionable is that Neeraj Bishnoi, a student of computer engineering,
who was lately arrested from Jorhat has been suspected to be the
mastermind behind the BulliBai app, developed on the hosting platform
GitHub. Initial reports suggest that Neeraj (who actually hails from
Rajasthan) has distorted sexual orientations and no way connected to
any Hindu nationalist outfit.
“The culprits should be punished under the law. But there is no logic
in nurturing the Hindutwa angle for the benefit of international media
markets as the app targeted mostly Muslim women. The conscious
citizens of Bharat should keep an eye over those anti-national
elements, so that they cannot hatch a conspiracy taking advantage of
the episode,” said a PPFA statement issued to the media.
