Using nameless accounts, Rene Joshilda despatched hoax bomb emails, together with one to the medical faculty on whose hostel the ill-fated AI-171 crashed.
The wreckage of the crashed #Air India airplane. (Source: HT)(Raju Shinde/HT Photo)
Using nameless accounts, Rene despatched quite a few hoax bomb emails, together with one to the medical faculty on whose hostel constructing the ill-fated AI-171 crashed on June 13. However, a small slip-up led to her arrest in #Chennai.
One-sided love, massive revenge plot
Rene Joshilda is an engineer skilled in #Robotics, and had been working as a senior marketing consultant at #Deloitte in #Chennai since 2022.
She was in love with one Divij Prabhakar, however he by no means reciprocated. Rene dreamt she would in the future marry Divij, however was left shattered when he married another person.
Blinded by the desire to take revenge, Rene determined to make use of her technical data to unfold panic with hoax bomb threats. She did so utilizing totally different e mail IDs, a few of which had been in Divij’s title.
According to police, she used faux e mail IDs, digital non-public networks (VPNs), and the darkish internet to masks her id and conceal her location.
“We were tracking her for a long time. She was very smart and didn’t reveal her virtual trail, but due to a small mistake of hers, we tracked her and caught her from her house in #Chennai,” Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Sharad Singhal informed information company PTI.
Her mails had been meticulously timed to create panic, and often got here forward of spiritual processions or visits by VIPs, police stated.
Rene despatched 13 menace emails to #Narendra Modi Stadium, 4 to #Geneva Liberal School, three to Divya Jyoti School and one to BJ Medical College, police stated.
Besides, she additionally despatched such mails to areas in #Maharashtra, #Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, Bihar, Telangana, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, and Haryana, police stated.
Threat linked to #Air India crash
One of Rene Joshilda’s threatening mails additionally concerned the #Air India airplane crash of June 13, India’s worst aviation catastrophe in a long time. She had despatched an e-mail to BJ Medical College in Ahmedabad, saying the crash was orchestrated and never an accident.
“I think now you know power. Like we sent you mail yesterday we crashed the #Air India plane with our former CM. We know the police would have thought that the plane crash was a hoax and ignored it,” a mail to the medical faculty despatched after the crash learn.
“Well done to our pilot. Now you know we are not playing. Now you know,” the mail additional stated.
All however one individual aboard the AI-171 died within the lethal airplane crash, and the overall loss of life toll stands at 260, together with 19 non-passengers. The airplane had crashed on the medical faculty’s hostel constructing inside seconds of take-off from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport.
(With PTI inputs)
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