Love unrequited, woman techie tries to frame co-worker for Air India crash
"She was in one-sided love with a Brahmin boy," said a senior official with Ahmedabad Police's Cyber Crime branch. "When he got married, she started planning revenge. She wanted to ruin him."The emails, sent over months, triggered panic across 11 states: Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Kerala, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Punjab. Each time, police scrambled teams, evacuated buildings and launched search operations. Every alert turned out to be false.Described by the police as highly educated and meticulous, Joshilda utilised the dark web and encrypted email IDs, even using Pakistani VPN and accounts in the name of the man who never reciprocated her feelings. All this was to mask her identity and implicate him.advertisementThen, a day after Air India's flight AI 171 crashed into the BJ Medical College in Ahmedabad, college authorities received a chilling email."We crashed the Air India plane yesterday. You thought it was a hoax. Now you know we're serious." The message went on to warn of more attacks.The mail was eventually traced to Rene Joshilda.Despite her technical know-how and efforts to destroy all digital evidence, Ahmedabad cybercrime officials managed to pinpoint a technical slip-up that led them to her doorstep in Chennai. She was arrested last week."She told us that if she had not been caught, she was planning to send two or three more emails during the upcoming Rath Yatra," the official said.Police also revealed a pattern of harassment in Joshilda's past. She allegedly harassed former friends in 2021 and 2022 by creating fake WhatsApp and Instagram accounts using virtual numbers to impersonate them.The case has now drawn the attention of state police departments across the country. They are coordinating with Gujarat Police to examine related incidents.Joshilda remains in custody and faces multiple charges under the IT Act and criminal law.- Ends
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