Bulli Bai app case mastermind held in Assam's Jorhat

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Updated At : 12:40 PM Jan 07, 2022 IST

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New Delhi/Guwahati, Jan 6

An engineering student believed to be the “mastermind” and creator of the Bulli Bai app was arrested on Thursday from Jorhat in Assam and brought to the national capital where he confessed to his role, Delhi Police officials said.

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Niraj Bishnoi (21) is the fourth person to be arrested for alleged involvement in the app that has listed hundreds of Muslim women for “auction”. Bishnoi, a resident of Jorhat, is the creator of the app on the platform GitHub as well as the main Twitter account holder of Bulli Bai, the police said. He is a second-year BTech student at the Vellore Institute of Technology in Bhopal. — PTI

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