Dehradun: Taking major action in the context of Bully by app controversy, Mumbai Police arrested 18-year-old Shweta Singh from Uttarakhand on Tuesday and it was said in the headlines that this girl was the mastermind of this whole case. A day before this, Shweta, a 21-year-old engineering student who was arrested from Bangalore, was also found to be her associate. The two had reportedly come in contact on social media after they saw similarities in ideology. After this the two became friends and both of them started the game of ‘auctioning’ webpages of Muslim women.
It is being told that in the controversial webpage hosting case on the code-sharing platform named GitHub, the first web page surfaced in July 2021 while the second one on January 1 under the name Bully Bai. These pages were found to contain derogatory material against reputed Muslim women, which sparked controversy. In this connection, Vishal Kumar Jha, who was traced through Twitter, was first arrested and after that, the Cyber Crime Cell of Mumbai arrested Shweta from Rudrapur located in Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand.
Shweta has lost her parents
According to the news coming in the media regarding this matter, Shweta lives with her three siblings in Rudrapur, and in the month of May last year, her father died due to Covid 19. Earlier in 2011, his mother had died of cancer. The HT report, quoting a senior Uttarakhand police officer, said that Shweta was associated with the “idea of Hindutva” and used to post such content frequently on social media.
The Uttarakhand police officer, on condition of anonymity, was quoted as saying, “During a discussion on a post related to the same idea, the two accused came in contact and then started chatting on WhatsApp and became friends… after being caught by Mumbai Police.” In the interrogation done after, Shweta also denied any kind of remorse.
Here, quoting another police officer, it was told in the report that Shweta is a girl from a financially weak background, who has passed class 12th but has not yet taken admission in the college. Shweta was produced in a local court for transit remand on Tuesday, from where she was handed over to Mumbai Police on remand.
How big is this network?
Is there anyone else who is the mastermind of this case? How many more people are involved in this IT gang of this woman? Mumbai Cyber Cell is investigating all these aspects. According to reports, according to what has come to light during interrogation, Shweta has told the police about a Nepali colleague, whose name she is calling Giau. Here, Uttarakhand DGP Ashok Kumar said on this case that the Uttarakhand Police did not interrogate the accused, only cooperated with the Mumbai Police.
