Vishal Jha, Mayank Rawat, and Shweta Singh, who are implicated in the Bulli Bai case, had their bail pleas denied by a Mumbai court on Thursday. The judgment in the bail applications filed by the three suspects nabbed so far by the Mumbai Police in the case was announced today by Bandra Metropolitan Magistrate Komalsing Rajput. The three defendants - Vishal Jha, a Bangalore student, and Shweta Singh and Mayank Rawat, residents of Uttarakhand - had claimed in their petitions that they had been unfairly charged in the case because they had done no crime and had no criminal history. They also claimed they had not developed any mobile applications and had no ties to the other defendants in the case. They said that they had turned in all electronic equipment for the investigation, that they were cooperating with the investigation, and that they were not in a position to tamper with the evidence. It was also mentioned that two of the accused, Jha and Rawat, had tested positive for COVID and were currently being held in the Kalina quarantine center The prosecution failed to put out a case on their accusation that the account was used to damage the image of the complainant or any other woman, according to Vishal Jha's lawyer Shivam Deshmukh. Meanwhile, Rawat's lawyer, Sandeep Sherkhane, contended that his client had no criminal history, had not created any apps, and had not written anything against any group. The Mumbai police had resisted their pleas, claiming that the accused's custody was essential for a more thorough investigation into the case. Their response stated that the defendants had used Sikh names on their Twitter and other social media accounts to incite hatred between Sikhs and Muslims and that they were in contact with the Sulli Bai case defendants, as evidenced by the deletion of various social media accounts belonging to them. The current case was sparked by an app called 'Bulli Bai,' which launched on the open-source platform GitHub and published details of over 100 Muslim women, allowing anyone to bid on them in an 'auction.' After an FIR was filed on January 1 against relevant Twitter handles and the creator of Bulli Bai for offenses under the Indian Penal Code and the Information Technology Act based on complaints from women targeted by the app, the three accused were arrested by the Mumbai Police Cyber Cell.
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