Mumbai

A total of three persons - an engineering student from Bengaluru, a young girl from Uttarakhand, and one of her friends have been arrested in connection with the Bulli Ba' app case, the Mumbai Police Commissioner Hemant Nagrale said on Wednesday.

"Three people have been arrested in the 'Bulli Bai' app case, including Vishal Kumar Jha and Shweta Singh. The third accused is Shweta's friend," Nagrale said.  

He also said that more people could be involved in this case requested people who have any knowledge about the case in which the app ‘auctioned’ Muslims women, to come forward and share the details with the police.

Earlier, Uttarakhand DGP Ashok Kumar that Shweta Singh, who is allegedly the mastermind behind the app, comes from a very poor family.

"Her father has died. It looks she did it for money," said Kumar.

Reacting to personal details of the accused, the Mumbai Police Commissioner said, "We have apprehended these people from different places and some local authorities have given some versions about it, which I feel, was not required."

"They were not aware of the details of the case. Generally, we don't speak about cases of other states," he added.

Vishal Kumar has been sent to police custody till January 10 by a Bandra court and Shweta Singh is on a transit remand.

On Monday, Mumbai Police filed a first information report (FIR) against unknown persons based on complaints that morphed photographs of women were uploaded for auction on the 'Bulli Bai' application hosted on the GitHub platform.

On Sunday, West Mumbai Cyber Police station registered a case against the 'Bulli Bai' app developers and Twitter handles that promoted the app.