Arrests after female Muslim activists ‘put up for sale’ in fake auction in India

Women say website aims to punish journalists, academics and artists drawing attention to hate speech

Police in India have detained a woman accused of organising a fake online auction in which hundreds of prominent female Muslims were put up for sale" on a website.

There were shock waves of anger and disgust in India after it emerged that a website calling itself Bulli Bai, an offensive term for Muslims, had set up a pretend auction of more than 100 Muslim women, including journalists, academics, activists, scholars and artists, where they were to be sold" as servants for negligible sums.