What started as an investigation into declare of downing the Air India aircraft that crashed in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad and bomb threats focusing on the Narendra Modi Stadium within the metropolis in addition to a number of websites throughout 12 Indian states has led to a weird twist — a story of unreciprocated love, private revenge, and cyber deception.
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 guide 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 keeping with a PTI information company report.
Beloved the person however it was one-sided
She beloved Divij Prabhakar and needed to marry him however it remained one-sided, PTI quoted joint commissioner of police (crime) Sharad Singhal, explaining the motive.
“Her goals crashed when Prabhakar married one other woman in February, filling her with revulsion and revenge,” he added.
In keeping with police, Joshilda created pretend e mail IDs — some in Prabhakar’s title — and used digital non-public networks (VPNs), digital cellphone numbers, and even the darkish internet to masks her identification. Regardless of her refined makes an attempt to cowl her digital path, a small misstep in the end led cyber crime officers to her doorstep in Chennai.
Girl 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 School, and faculties 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 usually timed forward of main spiritual occasions or VIP visits.
One of many threatening messages learn: “Bomb efficiently planted in Narendra Modi Stadium. Save the stadium if you happen to can.”
Claimed to down Air India aircraft
One other ominous e mail to Ahmedabad’s BJ Medical School, whose hostel the ill-fated Air India aircraft crashed into on June 12, referred to a crash of the airline’s plane.
“I believe now you already know energy. Like we despatched you mail yesterday we crashed the Air India aircraft with our former CM… Now you already know we aren’t enjoying,” the mail learn, seemingly referring to the June 12 Air India aircraft crash.
The investigation, nevertheless, stemmed from an FIR registered at Sarkhej police station in Ahmedabad after a menace mail was acquired by a faculty on June 3, 2025.
The sender wrote she needed to draw consideration to a 2023 rape case in Hyderabad. “Going to blast the bomb in your college to deliver police consideration concerning the rapist who raped the woman in Lemon Tree Resort in Hyderabad in 2023.”
In complete, she despatched:
13 menace emails to Narendra Modi Stadium
4 to Geneva Liberal College
3 to Divya Jyoti College
1 to BJ Medical School
“She allegedly despatched emails to numerous areas in 11 different states in addition to Gujarat,” stated Singhal, emphasizing the coordinated response from state cyber crime groups throughout the nation.
“We have been monitoring her for a very long time. She was very good and didn’t reveal her digital path, however on account of a small mistake of hers, we tracked her and caught her from her home in Chennai,” he added. “We are able to say that we now have busted a giant 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.
