NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to order a stay on the investigation into the ‘Sulli Deals’ case, in which multiple first information reports (FIRs) have been lodged against the app’s creator, Aumkareshwar Thakur.
‘Sulli Deals’ is an app that first surfaced in July, 2021, on content sharing platform GitHub. In the app, ‘auctions’ were staged for prominent Muslim women, described using the derogatory term ‘sulli’, using manipulated photographs of these women along with derogatory descriptions.
In the present case, the top court was hearing a plea by Thakur seeking the clubbing of the many FIRs filed by numerous women in the case.
the bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and M.M. Sundresh observed that since there were multiple uploads on the platform, the FIRs were filed by multiple different aggrieved women and thus asked how the FIRs could be clubbed together.
Hundreds of women were targetted through the app, with their pictures being doctored and shared without their consent.
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