Ahmedabad: A crane getting used to clear the particles of the crashed Air India aircraft, in Ahmedabad, Saturday, June 14, 2025.(PTI)
Ahmedabad Police on Monday stated it arrested a girl who allegedly orchestrated a wave of terror threats in a calculated try to border a person who had rejected her.
The accused, Rene Joshilda, a senior advisor at a multinational firm in Tamil Nadu’s Chennai, was arrested after an in depth digital surveillance operation traced the supply of the hoax emails, in line with a PTI information company report.
Loved the person nevertheless it was one-sided
She liked Divij Prabhakar and wished to marry him nevertheless it remained one-sided, PTI quoted joint commissioner of police (crime) Sharad Singhal, explaining the motive.
“Her goals crashed when Prabhakar married one other lady in February, filling her with revulsion and revenge,” he added.
According to police, Joshilda created pretend e-mail IDs — some in Prabhakar’s title — and used digital non-public networks (VPNs), digital telephone numbers, and even the darkish internet to masks her identification. Despite her subtle makes an attempt to cowl her digital path, a small misstep in the end led cyber crime officers to her doorstep in Chennai.
Woman skilled in robotics, employed at Deloitte
Rene Joshilda, an engineer skilled in robotics and employed at Deloitte since 2022, is accused of sending hoax menace emails to high-profile areas, together with the Narendra Modi Stadium, BJ Medical College, and colleges in Ahmedabad.
She additionally allegedly focused a number of different areas in Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, Bihar, Telangana, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, and Haryana — with emails typically timed forward of main non secular occasions or VIP visits.
One of the threatening messages learn: “Bomb successfully planted in Narendra Modi Stadium. Save the stadium if you can.”
Claimed to down Air India aircraft
Another ominous e-mail to Ahmedabad’s BJ Medical College, whose hostel the ill-fated Air India aircraft crashed into on June 12, referred to a crash of the airline’s plane.
“I think now you know power. Like we sent you mail yesterday we crashed the Air India plane with our former CM… Now you know we are not playing,” the mail learn, seemingly referring to the June 12 Air India aircraft crash.
The investigation, nonetheless, stemmed from an FIR registered at Sarkhej police station in Ahmedabad after a menace mail was obtained by a college on June 3, 2025.
The sender wrote she wished to draw consideration to a 2023 rape case in Hyderabad. “Going to blast the bomb in your school to bring police attention about the rapist who raped the girl in Lemon Tree Hotel in Hyderabad in 2023.”
In whole, she despatched:
13 menace emails to Narendra Modi Stadium
4 to Geneva Liberal School
3 to Divya Jyoti School
1 to BJ Medical College
“She allegedly despatched emails to varied areas in 11 different states apart from Gujarat,” stated Singhal, emphasizing the coordinated response from state cyber crime groups throughout the nation.
“We had been monitoring her for a very long time. She was very sensible and didn’t reveal her digital path, however attributable to a small mistake of hers, we tracked her and caught her from her home in Chennai,” he added. “We can say that we now have busted an enormous module.”
Rene Joshilda’s use of her technical expertise for private vengeance, police say, created widespread panic and misled legislation enforcement throughout India — all stemming from a deeply private vendetta and emotional heartbreak.
