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BULLI BAI CASE: Mumbai Sessions Court Grants Bail To All Six Accused

By Shashwata Sahu      22 June, 2022 11:15 AM      0 Comments
BULLI BAI CASE Mumbai Sessions Court Grants Bail To All Six Accused

On Tuesday, the Mumbai Sessions Court granted bail to three accused in the BulliBai Case - Aumkareshwar Thakur, Neeraj Bishnoi, and Neeraj Singh.

Earlier this year, the Bandra Metropolitan Magistrate granted bail to three of the accused and denied release to Thakur and Singh, while Bishnoi had to withdraw his application on technical grounds. With the Sessions Court's bail order issued on Tuesday, all six accused in the case have been granted bail.

On Tuesday, the additional sessions judge AB Sharma ordered that the accused be released on bail on furnishing a Rs.50,000 bail bond with one or two solvent sureties of the same amount. The accused were also ordered to visit the cyber police station once a month and were prohibited from travelling abroad without the court's prior permission.

In their bail application filed through Advocate Shivam Deshmukh, the accused cited the following grounds:

  1. That they have been falsely implicated and have not committed the offences as alleged;
  2. That they hail from a respectable family and the act alleged is beyond imagination;
  3. That a Delhi court has already granted them bail for similar offences;
  4. That they are in no position to hamper the investigation in light of all electronic devices purportedly used for the crime having been seized;
  5. That the offences under Sections 153(a) and 153(b) of the Indian Penal Code cannot be attracted as only one religion was targeted and there was to enticement of disharmony between two religions;
  6. That they're not the creators of the app;
  7. That the co-accused have already been released on bail;
  8. The role of the applicants is of only following the app, which does not constitute any offence, as alleged;
  9. That even if the allegations are true, the court should take a "fatherly view" as the applicants require counselling and not incarceration;
  10. That since the punishment for the offences is less than three years, incarceration is unwarranted and will result in pre-judicial sentences;
  11. That they will not tamper with evidence.

The special prosecutor vigorously opposed all applications. He contended 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 activities were detrimental to the nation's harmony and threatened its integrity. Therefore, he prayed for the application to be rejected.

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 had also filed a separate FIR in relation to the offence.



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