Delhi Police on Monday said that the ongoing investigation into the “Sully Deal” case has revealed that around 30 Twitter handles were misused to upload morphed pictures of Muslim women for alleged “auction”. An official said Delhi Police is trying to identify the members of the group, which also included Omkareshwar Thakur, a 26-year-old youth from Indore.
He said that Thakur had deleted the contents of his laptop, and sent his laptop and phone as well as the phone to the National Forensic Science Lab, along with Neeraj Bishnoi, the creator of the “Bully Bai” app, and those arrested earlier by the Delhi Police from Assam. has given. To ascertain their contents and access details. While awaiting the forensic lab report, the police are trying to identify other members of the group who misused the Twitter handle, he said.
The accused Thakur, who is the creator of abusive app allegedly targeting Muslim women, was arrested from Indore in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday night, he said. Interrogation of Thakur revealed that he is an “introvert” who also ran his own web-designing firm with clients from the US.
A senior police officer said that when his father was questioned, he told investigators that he was not aware of Thakur as he slept throughout the day and worked at night. He said that when his parents asked him about his habit of staying awake throughout the night, they told him that due to the time difference between India and the US, he has to work mostly through the night, so he never attacked Thakur. Do not doubt, the official said.
Though both Thakur and Bishnoi do not regret their activities, Thakur lamented that their family faced problems because of them, he said. Police said the accused were part of a traditional group where discussions were held about the rise and fall of the ancient tradition, Hinduism. When he felt that he could do nothing to stop the decline of Hinduism, he created several anonymous handles on Twitter and used virtual private numbers (VPNs) to access the Internet to conceal his identity.
Police suspect that at least three to five people were misusing these multiple Twitter handles to put up these distorted and objectionable pictures and were exchanging comments through the alleged “Sully Deal” app. Thakur, who did his BCA from IPS Academy in Indore and is a resident of New York City, was taken into custody on Saturday, days after his arrest in connection with a similar app “Bully Bye” in New York City.
Police said this is the first arrest in the Sully Deal app case registered in July, with Thakur being sent to police custody for four days by the court on Sunday. Hundreds of Muslim women were listed for auction on a mobile application, photographed and molested without permission.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (IFSO) KPS Malhotra had said that during preliminary interrogation, the accused admitted that he was a member of a group on Twitter where the idea of defaming and trolling Muslim women was shared. “She developed the code on GitHub. All members of the group had access to GitHub. She shared the app on her Twitter account. Photos of Muslim women were uploaded by the group members,” the official had said.
The investigation revealed that the accused had joined the group on Twitter by the name of “Tradmahasabha” in January 2020 using the handle @gangescion. The police had said that during various group discussions, the members had spoken of trolling Muslim women.
“He admitted that he developed the code/app on GitHub. He confessed that he had created the Sullideals app and the necessary digital footprints are being investigated in his laptop and cyberspace. Later, he had deleted all his social media footprints,” the DCP had said. During the interrogation of accused Neeraj Bishnoi (21) who is believed to be the creator and alleged mastermind of the “Bully Bai” application. The police had said that it emerged that he used to interact with various virtual identities on social media and engage in group discussions.
He had said that Bishnoi, who was arrested in Assam, had revealed that he was in touch with the person behind the Twitter handle @sullideals, the alleged creator of the “Sully Deal” app hosted on GitHub in July last year.
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