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  In January 2022, the controversy erupted over the Bulli Bai App, similar to the ‘Sully Deal,’ wherein around 80 Muslim women were put for online sale. “Sulli” and “Bulli” are offensive slang terms used to refer to Muslim women. The Bulli Bai application puts together a list of Muslim women for an “auction” at Github. Github is the open software development site owned by Microsoft. Among the 100 Muslim women listed on the app were prominent personalities such as actress Shabana Azmi and Malala Yousafzai. Moreover, the list featured Fatima Nafees, the mother of Najeeb Ahmed, a JNU student who went missing. Hundreds of Muslim women’s photographs were used without permission and doctored to put up on the app for “auction.” Niraj Bishnoi, a 21-year-old engineering student from Assam's Jorhat region, has been arrested by Delhi Police. He is alleged to be the key conspirator and developer of the Bulli Bai app on GitHub and the app's main Twitter account holder. Additionally, a 21