Seventy-seven members of the Delhi High Court Women Lawyers Forum have written to Chief Justice of India Justice N.V. Ramana seeking directions to ensure a time-bound investigation is conducted into the alleged illegal surveillance and auction of Muslim women through apps like Bulli Bai and Sulli Deals.
The letter petition has sought directions to strictly prohibit the auctions of human beings like inanimate objects. The letter demanded the CJI issue appropriate instructions to the Centre and the state to ensure the safety of the members of the minority community and their right to live life with dignity.
Along with a demand for a strict ban on this auction, a direction to investigate the matter under Section 120 of the IPC and other appropriate sections within a stipulated time was also sought.
The petition said the Apex Court should issue appropriate directions to the District Magistrate and Superintendent of Police of every district to stop calling for genocide against minority communities, maligning minorities, spreading fake news about them. The probe into them should look at the sources of funding, the money trail and the mastermind who developed the app. The petition further states that a similar FIR was registered in the case of the Sulli Deal app but no one has been arrested and the investigation was not even started.
The inaction by law enforcement has emboldened the people behind such apps that they have targeted even the wife of the sitting judge of the High Court, reads the plea. In fact, the profiles of hundreds of influential Muslim women were posted on the Bully Bai app with fake photos.
Neeraj Bishnoi, the 21-year-old alleged conspirator in the Bulli Bai app case, was arrested by Delhi Police from Assam’s Jorhat district.
Read the petition here
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