Bulli Bai row: Nepali friend of accused claims to be behind app

A screen grab of the tweet from the handle @Giyu44 claiming he is behind the Bulli Bai app

The Mumbai Crime Branch, which probed the fake online Muslim women auction case - the Bulli Bai case - has not found any financial transactions of arrested accused Vishal Kumar Jha. The police suspect that financial transactions took place and will interrogate the three arrested accused together for this.

The police have also found that accused Shweta Singh was allegedly acting on the instructions of a social media friend based in Nepal. Sources said as per information received from Singh, a Nepali citizen named Giyu was instructing her about the app. A Crime Branch officer told mid-day, "We suspect the accused might have been funded for doing such work."

An account holder on Twitter named @Giyu44 has tweeted that he is the creator of the Bulli Bai app and that those arrested in this case are innocent and have nothing to do with it. When the Mumbai Crime Branch arrested accused Jha, State Home Minister Satej Patil tweeted about it on Tuesday. Retweeting Patil's tweet on Wednesday, @Giyu44 described himself as the creator of the app. He has asked the police to ask the accused for the unique ID of the app, saying they (the police) will realise their mistake after that, as only the creator of an app has its unique ID and the accused allegedly don't have it.