'Bulli Bai' accused habitual hacker, was in touch with 'Sulli Deals' maker: police

Niraj Bishnoi, the alleged mastermind and creator of the 'Bulli Bai' application, has confessed that he habitually hacked and defaced the websites of schools and universities of both India and Pakistan, police officials said on Saturday.

They also said that Bishnoi disclosed during interrogation that he was in touch with the person behind the 'Sulli Deals' app that was hosted on GitHub in July last year.

The Delhi police had arrested 21-year-old Bishnoi from Assam and claimed that it has solved the case which relates to hundreds of Muslim women being listed for 'auction' on the 'Bulli Bai' app on the Github platform.

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Bishnoi had created the Twitter account @giyu44 was created on January 3 to discredit the arrests made by the Mumbai Police in the case. In his tweet he accepted that he was behind the 'Bulli Bai' app and threw an open challenge to law enforcement agencies to nab him.