MUMBAI: The three college students arrested in the
Bulli Bai
app case told the city cyber police during their interrogation that they followed instructions from the app’s creator, Neeraj
Bishnoi
, who is currently in Delhi Police’s custody. They said that it was on Bishnoi’s direction that they would post offensive content using encryption service ProtonMail. They told the police the posts would be in English with a “Sikh community tone” to evade detection. Lawyers representing the accused told the Bandra court that they were used brainwashed by Bishnoi.
The cyber police got custodial extension of two of the three, Shweta Singh (18) and Mayank Rawat (21), pleading before the magistrate that investigators wanted to extract more details from the cellphones and other gadgets seized from the trio. All three used multiple social media platforms and ProtonMail to hide their locations and identities while propagating the Bulli
Bai
human auction app.