India, Oct. 7 -- A Mumbai court has discharged Vishal Sudhirkumar Jha from the Bulli Bai app case, holding that merely following the application or remaining in contact with co-accused did not establish his involvement in the alleged offences.

The order, passed on October 6 by Bandra judicial magistrate R T Ingle, marks the first discharge in the prominent cybercrime case.

The case relates to a GitHub-hosted application that displayed photographs of more than 100 Muslim women and presented them as being available for an online auction. Mumbai Cyber Police had registered the case in January 2022 after a woman found her photograph on the application.

Jha was among those accused of being involved in the case. The prosecution alleged that ...