In Bulli Bai App Case All Accused Out On Bail After Three More Secure Relief :Mumbai Sessions Court
Earlier this year, the Bandra Metropolitan Magistrate granted bail to three of the defendants, denied bail to Thakur and Singh, and required Bishnoi to withdraw his application for technical reasons.
With the Sessions Court’s bail order issued, all six defendants in the case have been granted bail.
Today, the additional sessions judge AB Sharma ordered that the accused be released on bail upon posting a 50,000 bail bond with one or two solvent sureties of the same amount.
The accused was also ordered to visit the cyber police station once per month and prohibited from travelling abroad without the court’s permission.
The accused, through their attorney Shivam Deshmukh, filed an application for bail on the following grounds: 1. That they have been falsely implicated and have not committed the alleged offences; 2. That they come from a respectable family and the alleged act is unfathomable; 3. That a Delhi court has already granted them bail for similar offences; 4. That they are unable to obstruct the investigation due to the seizure of all electronic devices.
The special prosecutor opposed vehemently all applications. He argued that a prima facie case had been established against them and that the evidence gathered thus far clearly demonstrated the accused’s role.
He went on to say that the accused’s actions were detrimental to the nation’s unity and threatened its very existence. Therefore, he prayed for the application to be denied.
The case began with the appearance of the app “Bulli bai” on the open-source platform GitHub.
The application provided information on more than one hundred prominent Muslim women and allowed users to participate in a virtual “auction” for these women.
On January 1, 2022, the cyber cell of the Mumbai police filed a first information report (FIR) in response to complaints from women who had been targeted by the app.
The Delhi Police also filed a separate FIR in relation to the offence.
