'Bulli Bai app affront to dignity of women of a particular community': Delhi court denies bail to Bishnoi

Neeraj Bishnoi. File Pic

Neeraj Bishnoi, the 21-year-old main accused in the Bulli Bai app case, was denied bail by a Delhi Court on Friday which observed that his act is an "affront to the dignity of the women of particular community and communal harmony of the society".

As per Live Law, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Patiala House Court, Pankaj Sharma, denied bail to Bishnoi, who the police claimed to be the conspirator and creator of the app on GitHub.

"The facts disclose that accused created the App "bullibai" where women journalists and celebrities of a particular community who are famous on social media are targeted and they are projected in a bad light with an objective to insult and humiliate them by objectification," the court said. It added: "A vilification campaign against these women containing derogatory content and offending material having communal overtones was run on this app being made by the accused."

"The investigation of this case is at initial stage and police is in process of collecting evidence and identifying involvement of other persons involved in this disdainful act. Accordingly, considering the enormity of allegation and the stage of investigation, no ground is made out for grant of bail at this stage. Bail denied," said the court.

Bishnoi, a resident of Assam's Jorhat area, is a student pursuing B. Tech from Vellore Institute of Technology, Bhopal. He was remanded to seven days police custody earlier this month in relation to the case.