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Sunday, February 22, 2026
TopicBulli Bai app

Topic: Bulli Bai app

Mumbai police is unleashing its sense of humour—with memes, movies and satire

Mumbai Police one of the most sought-after Twitter handles among the public service handles with 4.9 million followers.

Bulli Bai suspects ‘idolised’ 19th-century Dogra king, discussed Chaturvarna, Mumbai Police find

Bulli Bai & Sulli Deals being investigated by Mumbai and Delhi police, both of which have filed chargesheets detailing alleged conspiracy behind portals seeking to 'auction Muslim women'.

Delhi Police file charge sheets in Sulli Deals & Bulli Bai cases, call them ‘illegal, inhuman’

Both cases refer to Muslim women, mostly from India, being put up ‘on sale’ online, seemingly in a bid to target and harass them, which had triggered outrage on social media.

What is consent, asks ‘Liberal Doge’, booked for sexist-casteist slurs & ‘auctioning’ women online

Ritesh Jha is ‘absconding’, claim Mumbai Police sources, but he denies it. On Wednesday, he was named in FIR filed by Hindu woman who was ‘auctioned’ on Clubhouse.

‘Women in India never more unsafe online or offline’: IIT-B, DU alumni write to PM & President

Open letter, signed by over 250 alumni of institutions like IRMA, XLRI as well, demands strict and immediate action against those accused in Bulli Bai and Sulli Deals apps cases.

Who is Niraj Bishnoi? This is what probe has revealed about character of Bulli Bai ‘mastermind’

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

‘Invader Muslims’, ‘decline of Hindu culture & Manusmriti’ angered Sulli Deals ‘mastermind’

Thakur revealed during interrogation that he got furious over the state of affairs in the country and felt like he must do something to uphold the beliefs of the Trads.

‘Introvert’, ‘very religious’: Family of Sulli Deals accused say he’s trapped in a conspiracy

Aumkareshwar Thakur’s father says his son barely left the house, and he had made the app, ‘there will be others who taught him’.

Bulli Bai app and the descent of India’s educated youth into using tech for anti-Muslim hate

Vishal Jha, Shweta Singh, Mayank Rawal, and Niraj Bishnoi — all aged 18 to 21 — have been arrested for creating Bulli Bai app that ‘auctioned’ Muslim women.

‘Bulli Bai’ outcry, PM’s security breach, Lakhimpur chargesheet — Page 1 news from Urdu press

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.