Mumbai court draws line between following & sharing content, discharges Bulli Bai app accused

A Mumbai magistrate’s court has discharged Vishal Sudhirkumar Jha, an accused in the Bulli Bai app case, holding that merely following the application does not constitute an offence without evidence of further involvement. In an order dated October 6, 2026, Judicial Magistrate First Class R. Ingle of the 12th Court at Bandra found that the prosecution had failed to establish that Jha shared the application on Twitter and helped create it or supplied photographs