A Mumbai court on Thursday remanded Aumkareshwar Thakur and Neeraj Singh, accused in the Bulli Bai app case, to judicial custody. .The Court also extended the police custody of the alleged founder of Bulli Bai App Neeraj Bishnoi till January 31, 2022..Advocate Shivam Deshmukh, appearing for Thakur, opposed police custody on the ground that there cannot be a fresh investigation in every new First Information Report (FIR) and since, an FIR was lodged in Delhi before Mumbai, investigation in the subsequent FIR was not permissible.To buttress this argument, the counsel relied on a judgment of the Supreme Court in TT Antony v. State of Kerala..On the basis of these arguments, the local Court agreed to grant judicial custody to the accused. .Subsequently, the Investigating Officer in the case also preferred an application for Thakur's custody for a day, since he could not be sent to Delhi on the same day..An MBA graduate, 28-year-old Singh was taken into custody by the Mumbai Police last Friday from Odisha, from where he was brought to Mumbai on transit remand, after which the Metropolitan Magistrate at Bandra, on Saturday, remanded him to police custody till January 27..Thakur and Bishnoi were arrested by the Delhi Police before being brought to Mumbai by the Mumbai Police. Thakur is also accused in an older Sulli deals case and was taken into police custody till January 27 for investigation in the Mumbai FIR..The case was triggered by an app called 'Bulli Bai', which appeared on open-source platform GitHub, putting out details of more than 100 Muslim women, allowing users to participate in an 'auction' of those women.The arrests took place after an FIR was registered by the Cyber Cell of the Mumbai Police on January 1 against relevant Twitter handles and the developer of Bulli Bai app for offences under the Indian Penal Code and the Information Technology Act based on complaints of women targeted by the app.
A Mumbai court on Thursday remanded Aumkareshwar Thakur and Neeraj Singh, accused in the Bulli Bai app case, to judicial custody. .The Court also extended the police custody of the alleged founder of Bulli Bai App Neeraj Bishnoi till January 31, 2022..Advocate Shivam Deshmukh, appearing for Thakur, opposed police custody on the ground that there cannot be a fresh investigation in every new First Information Report (FIR) and since, an FIR was lodged in Delhi before Mumbai, investigation in the subsequent FIR was not permissible.To buttress this argument, the counsel relied on a judgment of the Supreme Court in TT Antony v. State of Kerala..On the basis of these arguments, the local Court agreed to grant judicial custody to the accused. .Subsequently, the Investigating Officer in the case also preferred an application for Thakur's custody for a day, since he could not be sent to Delhi on the same day..An MBA graduate, 28-year-old Singh was taken into custody by the Mumbai Police last Friday from Odisha, from where he was brought to Mumbai on transit remand, after which the Metropolitan Magistrate at Bandra, on Saturday, remanded him to police custody till January 27..Thakur and Bishnoi were arrested by the Delhi Police before being brought to Mumbai by the Mumbai Police. Thakur is also accused in an older Sulli deals case and was taken into police custody till January 27 for investigation in the Mumbai FIR..The case was triggered by an app called 'Bulli Bai', which appeared on open-source platform GitHub, putting out details of more than 100 Muslim women, allowing users to participate in an 'auction' of those women.The arrests took place after an FIR was registered by the Cyber Cell of the Mumbai Police on January 1 against relevant Twitter handles and the developer of Bulli Bai app for offences under the Indian Penal Code and the Information Technology Act based on complaints of women targeted by the app.
