Indian authorities say police have arrested a man and a woman who were allegedly involved in a fake auction of prominent Muslim women on a website.
According to the American news agency AP, there is a lot of grief and anger in India after this case came to light.
On Tuesday, the Mumbai Police Cyber Unit arrested two suspects following a complaint by a victim.
It is not clear if the two suspects created the website.
Police have charged a 21-year-old engineering student and said they are investigating the woman further.
Over the weekend, more than 100 prominent Indian Muslim women, including journalists, human rights activists, film stars and artists, posted pictures on a website. These images were posted on the website without their permission.
The list of photos on the website also included a photo of the 65-year-old mother of a missing Indian student and a photo of Pakistani Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai.
The website was shut down within 24 hours. The name of this website was 'Billy Bai'. It is a derogatory word used for Muslim women in India.
Words like "Deals of the Day" were used for pictures of Muslim women on the Internet, which meant auctioning off women on the Internet.
Although it did not actually sell Muslim women, the women on the list say the auction was aimed at humiliating them.
They also contain pictures of women who have spoken out against Hindu nationalism and some of the policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India.
The application was built on GitHub, a San Francisco-based software sharing platform. A spokesman for the company said it had blocked the website operator's account and would co-operate with authorities in the investigation.
Anger has been expressed on Twitter after complaints were received from the victims. The affected women shared screenshots of their photos from the website.
Women's rights groups and opposition parties have called on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party to take action against online harassment of Muslim women and urged Technology Minister Ashwini Vishwa to take strong action.
Police in three Indian states have said they have launched an investigation into the matter.
This is not the first time that Muslim women have been targeted in India through an internet application. A similar application, Sully Deals, was launched in June last year. 'Sully Deals' is a derogatory term used for Muslim women.
In India, women, especially Muslim women, are often the target of hatred and abuse on social media.
