MAR 29, 2024 JLM 63°F 01:47 AM 07:47 PM EST
India: Writers of an app for the sale of Muslim women in auctions have been arrested

Indian police on Wednesday arrested three people accused of writing an online app that sold well-known Muslim women, including journalists and social activists.

Police said they arrested an 18-year-old woman and two young men in their early twenties who were preoccupied with requests for the app, according to the AFP news agency.

The creators of the app posted photos of more than 100 women in the "Polypay" app, along with abusive messages.

Bombay Police Commissioner Mement Negral, for his part, told reporters: "Pictures of women belonging to a specific community have been uploaded… and objections have also been posted."

In addition, the open source Github software development platform, on which the app was released, told local media that it would assist in the police investigation.

The women, whose photos appeared, expressed dissatisfaction with statements on social media.

The American "BBC" channel previously quoted "Hana Khan", one of the girls offered for sale on the site, as saying that her name was on the list, and that she had received a tweet from her friend in which she drew her attention to it.

Khan, who works as a civilian squadron, added that when she clicked on the link her friend sent, she went to Sulli Deals, an app and website that took pictures of dozens of women available for matchmaking, created profiles for them and displayed them under the headline: "Women on sale - only today."

And she continued: "I counted 83 names, maybe there are more. They took my picture from my page in the Twitter app, which bears my first name as a user, and the app they put me up for sale has been running for 20 days and we knew nothing about it," noting there was no real auction of any kind, the goal was to humiliate Muslim women.

She confirmed that the app indicates only Muslim women. "I am a Muslim woman who has a voice and a presence. They want to silence us," she said.

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