Chargesheets in the Bulli Bai and Sulli Deals cases were filed by the Delhi and Mumbai police last week, according to a report by The Print. In the Bulli Bai case, the accused used a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to hide his activities while uploading the data of 102 Muslim women; used the Gurmukhi script to mislead the investigation and create communal tensions between Sikhs and Muslims, as per the Delhi Police's chargesheet seen by The Print. Meanwhile, in the Sulli Deals case, the chargesheet noted that the accused cleared his digital footprint of all his devices and used ten Twitter handles to propagate the content. In both cases, the creators were part of a 'Tradmahasabha' group on Twitter where ideas were shared on harassing Muslim women online. This group, according to the Mumbai police officials quoted in the report, helped propagate the apps' content; the main accused were only 'the second layers' working on others' directions. Interestingly, Delhi police sources are quoted as saying that it is still investigating the cases as it hasn't received some information from Twitter and the procedure to get this information through the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty route is also underway. In August 2021, photos of hundreds of Muslim women were non-consensually shared and uploaded to an app for an auction of sorts, on open-source code repository GitHub, subjecting the women to online sexual harassment, abuse, etc. Following the incident, there was widespread outrage but police action only came after January 2022 when another app (Bulli…
