Bulli Bai app: Fourth man held over auction of Muslim women This is the second attempt in less than year to "sell" Muslim women in a fake auction
Indian police have arrested the alleged creator of an app that shared photos of more than 100 Muslim women saying they were on "sale". Neeraj Bishnoi, 20, is the fourth person to be held in connection with this case.
The app - "Bulli Bai" - was hosted on GitHub, which has since taken it down amid widespread anger and outrage. This was the second attempt in months to harass Muslim women by sharing their images in a fake auction.
In July last year, an app and website called "Sulli Deals" created profiles of more than 80 Muslim women - using photos they uploaded online - and described them as "deals of the day". Though the police began an investigation, no-one has been charged yet.
A special unit of the Delhi police that deals with cyber crime arrested Mr Bishnoi in the north-eastern state of Assam on Thursday. "He is the main conspirator, and the creator of the app," KPS Malhotra, the deputy commissioner of the cyber crime team, told the BBC.
Earlier this week, Mumbai police arrested three others - Vishal Kumar, a 21-year-old engineering student in the southern city of Bangalore, and two other students, Shweta Singh, 18, and Mayank Rawat, 21, in the northern state of Uttarakhand.
"Our investigation is in its premature stages, so we can't say yet whether "Bulli Bai" and "Sulli Deals" are connected," Mumbai police commissioner Hemant Nagrale told BBC Marathi.
Police in at least three states have opened an investigation into the "Bulli Bai" app based on complaints by women who were targeted.