Github accused hard to break

NEW DELHI Cunning, emotionless, and hard to break – this is how police officers describe Neeraj Bishnoi (21), the secondyear Btech student arrested for creating the controversial Bulli Bai app on Github where doctored photographs of Muslim women were uploaded.

In police custody, Bishnoi asked his interrogators to address him as Giyo -- a name he has taken from Giyu Tomioka, a fictional character who kills the demon in the Japanese comic book and animated series Demon Slayer.

In the last two years, Bishnoi had created five Twitter handles using versions of the name Giyo such as @giyu2002, @giyu007, @giyuu84, @giyu94 and @guyi44 to promote the controversial app or make derogatory comments against women on social media.

When police scanned his laptop, they found 153 different adult sites as tabs on his browser window.

Bishnoi, who has been in police custody for about 48 hours, has been coming up with new revelations every hour.

“He claims to be a habitual hacker, who has been defacing websites since he was 15. He said he hacked his school’s website at 15. He claims he has in the past hacked or defaced different websites of schools and universities of India as well as of that of Pakistan. We are verifying the claims,” said DCP KPS Malhotra, chief of the cyber cell of the Delhi police.

A team of IFSO and Assam police arrested Bishnoi from his house in Jorhat on January 5.

Investigating officials said that in the past 48 hours Bishnoi attempted to harm himself twice and also threatened to kill himself.

“He is trying to delay the investigation and is not cooperating. We are ensuring he does not harm himself,” DCP Malhotra said.

An investigating officer said that Bishnoi had used the Gurmukhi script instead of Devanagari or Roman to mislead investigators into believing that the controversial app may have been created by pro-khalistan separatist groups.