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Time of India
9 hours ago
- Time of India
One-sided love fuels bomb hoax spree: Chennai techie sends 21 threats across 12 states; targets schools, hospitals to frame male colleague
AHMEDABAD: A 30-year-old woman working as a senior consultant with an IT firm in Chennai was arrested by the Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Branch for allegedly sending at least 21 bomb threat emails across 12 Indian states, including Gujarat. In the state, multiple schools, Narendra Modi cricket stadium and BJ Medical College were among the institutes targeted by Rene Joshilda's threat mail. The accused, Joshilda, an electrical engineer by qualification working with Deloitte USI in Chennai allegedly acted out of revenge after the man she secretly loved got married on Feb 25, police officials said. To implicate him, she sent bomb threat emails either in his name or by accusing him of involvement in a rape case where the police failed to act. A senior officer from the Ahmedabad City Cyber Crime police said the woman was obsessed with a male colleague who was unaware of her feelings. Over the past two years, such was her obsession with her male colleague that she harassed women who interacted with him and even went to the extent of creating a fake marriage certificate of her marriage with the colleague and circulated it to all her office colleagues including herself. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Giao dịch vàng CFDs với mức chênh lệch giá thấp nhất IC Markets Đăng ký Undo 'Used sophisticated tools to mask identity' "When they were working together, she used to create fake email accounts and harass any woman who showed any interest in her secret lover. In one case, she harassed a woman colleague suspecting her to be interested in the male colleague to the extent that she quit her job," said the police officer. In the past two years, Joshilda bought at least 80 numbers through VPN and is suspected to have sent hundreds of fake emails and messages. She was devastated when she found out that her "male interest" married another woman. In fact, this development proved the tipping point, throwing her into a spiral of revenge where she shot off a series of bomb hoax mails in a bid to create major police and legal trouble for the man, police said. Police said Joshilda used sophisticated cyber tools like VPNs, virtual numbers, and spoofed emails, along with dark web resources to mask her identity. She reportedly created multiple fake email accounts under male names to mislead investigators. H er targets included schools, hospitals, and stadiums in states like Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, and others. Ahmedabad police launched an investigation after one of the emails reached Geneva Liberal School in Sarkhej. Based on technical analysis, she was traced and arrested from Chennai. Joshilda sent such emails for over a year, carefully masking her identity. However, a small digital error during one of the email transmissions helped investigators identify her. Police retrieved several digital and documentary evidence from her possession and are investigating if others were involved. "She used dark web tools and spoofed emails to fake identities, but made one digital mistake that led us to her," said JCP Sharad Singhal. "She is skilled in cyber tools and meticulously tried to hide her tracks." Sources said that Joshilda mentioned the male colleague's name in at least half a dozen mails of bomb threat which led the cops to reach out to him. Joshilda was a suspect and technical surveillance confirmed that she was behind the slew of bomb hoax mails which had kept the authorities on their toes across states in the recent past. Police recovered devices, technical evidence, and fake accounts linked to 21 hoax threats. Further investigation is underway to verify if more people were involved.
Time of India
12 hours ago
- Time of India
One-sided love triggers bomb hoax wave
Ahmedabad: A 30-year-old woman working as a senior consultant with an IT firm in Chennai was arrested by the Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Branch for allegedly sending at least 21 bomb threat emails across 12 Indian states, including Gujarat. In the state, multiple schools, Narendra Modi cricket stadium and BJ Medical College were among the institutes targeted by Rene Joshilda's threat mail. The accused, Joshilda, an electrical engineer by qualification working with Deloitte USI in Chennai allegedly acted out of revenge after the man she secretly loved got married on Feb 25, police officials said. To implicate him, she sent bomb threat emails either in his name or by accusing him of involvement in a rape case where the police failed to act. A senior officer from the Ahmedabad City Cyber Crime police said the woman was obsessed with a male colleague who was unaware of her feelings. Over the past two years, such was her obsession with her male colleague that she harassed women who interacted with him and even went to the extent of creating a fake marriage certificate of her marriage with the colleague and circulated it to all her office colleagues including herself. "When they were working together, she used to create fake email accounts and harass any woman who showed any interest in her secret lover. In one case, she harassed a woman colleague suspecting her to be interested in the male colleague to the extent that she quit her job," said the police officer. In the past two years, Joshilda bought at least 80 numbers through VPN and is suspected to have sent hundreds of fake emails and messages. She was devastated when she found out that her "male interest" married another woman. In fact, this development proved the tipping point, throwing her into a spiral of revenge where she shot off a series of bomb hoax mails in a bid to create major police and legal trouble for the man, police said. Police said Joshilda used sophisticated cyber tools like VPNs, virtual numbers, and spoofed emails, along with dark web resources to mask her identity. She reportedly created multiple fake email accounts under male names to mislead investigators. H er targets included schools, hospitals, and stadiums in states like Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, and others. Ahmedabad police launched an investigation after one of the emails reached Geneva Liberal School in Sarkhej. Based on technical analysis, she was traced and arrested from Chennai. Joshilda sent such emails for over a year, carefully masking her identity. However, a small digital error during one of the email transmissions helped investigators identify her. Police retrieved several digital and documentary evidence from her possession and are investigating if others were involved. "She used dark web tools and spoofed emails to fake identities, but made one digital mistake that led us to her," said JCP Sharad Singhal. "She is skilled in cyber tools and meticulously tried to hide her tracks." Sources said that Joshilda mentioned the male colleague's name in at least half a dozen mails of bomb threat which led the cops to reach out to him. Joshilda was a suspect and technical surveillance confirmed that she was behind the slew of bomb hoax mails which had kept the authorities on their toes across states in the recent past. Police recovered devices, technical evidence, and fake accounts linked to 21 hoax threats. Further investigation is underway to verify if more people were involved. Box 1: AI plane crash mentioned in email to Ahmedabad college On June 13, Ahmedabad's BJ Medical College received a threat email referencing the Air India plane crash that killed a former Gujarat chief minister. The sender claimed responsibility for the crash and warned that authorities misjudged their intent. The message read: "We crashed the Air India plane yesterday. You thought it was a hoax. Now you know we're serious." The email further warned that more attacks would follow and implied a connection between the crash and the sender's previous warnings that was ignored. The chilling message raised alarms across security agencies, prompting urgent checks and increased surveillance. Investigation revealed this threat was also sent by Reni Joshilda as part of her plan to escalate fear and falsely portray her 'secret lover' as a dangerous individual. Box 2: HC bomb threat case still unsolved City police are yet to solve the high court bomb hoax case. On June 9, an anonymous email threatened to blow up the Gujarat high court building. An investigation was conducted, but cops are yet to ascertain who the sender was. They suspect that Reni Joshilda or some aide might be behind that threat.
NDTV
19 hours ago
- NDTV
Robotics Engineer Sends 21 Bomb Threats To Gujarat To Frame Man She Loved
Ahmedabad: A probe into e-mails threatening blasts at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad and different places in 12 states has unravelled a tale of unrequited love and vengeance allegedly unleashed by a woman executive of an MNC in Chennai to defame a man, leading to her arrest. After the man who she dreamt would be her husband, married another woman, the accused, identified as Rene Joshilda, decided to avenge the 'rejection' and used deception to wreak havoc in his life. According to police, she used fake email IDs, virtual private networks (VPNs), and the dark web to hide her identity and location. She was arrested by the Ahmedabad cyber crime from her residence in Chennai on Saturday following an extended technical surveillance, which involved picking the digital trail, an official said on Monday. Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Sharad Singhal on Monday said Joshilda created different email IDs, some of which were in the name of Divij Prabhakar, who she wanted to marry. An engineer trained in Robotics, Joshilda has been working as a senior consultant at a multinational firm in Chennai since 2022. "She has done her engineering from Chennai and a course in Robotics. Currently, she is a senior consultant at Deloitte. She loved Divij Prabhakar and wanted to marry him but it remained one-sided," Singhal told reporters. Her dreams crashed when Prabhakar married another girl in February, filling her with revulsion and revenge. "In a bid to frame him, she created different email IDs, some of which were in the name of Prabhakar," the police officer added. Blinded by love, Joshilda used her technical knowledge to spread panic, blissfully unaware of the impact of her action on innocent people who became unintentional targets due to hoax emails. The police officer said Joshilda sent emails from anonymous accounts threatening to blow up the Narendra Modi Stadium, BJ Medical College, and at least two schools in Ahmedabad. "She allegedly sent emails to various locations in 11 other states also (besides Gujarat) timing them ahead of some religious processions or visits by VIPs," he said. Police from various states coordinated with the cyber crime police of Ahmedabad. "The accused used virtual numbers to create fake email IDs and used the dark web," Singhal added. Explaining the virtual cat-and-mouse game, the police officer said Joshilda played her moves smartly and covered her virtual trail. However, a small mistake on her part led investigators to her. "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," Singhal said. He said police recovered significant digital and paper evidence against Joshilda. "We can say that we have busted a big module," the police officer exclaimed. The investigation stemmed from an FIR registered at Sarkhej police station in Ahmedabad after a threat mail was received by a school on June 3, 2025. In the mail, the sender stated she was "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 (sic)". The accused sent 13 threat emails to Narendra Modi Stadium, four to Geneva Liberal School, three to Divya Jyoti School and one to BJ Medical College, police said. Apart from this, emails threatening bomb blasts were also sent to target locations in Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, Bihar, Telangana, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, and Haryana, police said. "Bomb successfully planted in Narendra Modi Stadium. Save the stadium if you can," reads one such mail. Another mail sent to BJ Medical College after the Air India crash stated: "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. Well done to our pilot. Now you know we are not playing. Now you know".
Indian Express
a day ago
- Indian Express
Woman ‘sends 21 hoax bomb threats' to Gujarat-based institutions ‘to frame man'
The Ahmedabad Cyber Crime police on Monday arrested a senior consultant at Deloitte, Chennai, for allegedly sending 21 hoax bomb threats to schools, a medical college, and a stadium in Gujarat — all in an 'attempt to frame a man she was in love with, but who had married someone else.' The accused, identified as Rene Joshilda from Chennai, allegedly created fake email IDs in the name of Divij Prabhakar, the person she intended to implicate, and sent a series of threatening messages between May and June 2025. According to the police, Joshilda also falsely claimed responsibility for the Air India flight AI-171 crash in Ahmedabad on June 12, stating in an email that the pilots were 'working for her'. One of the first threats was received by Geneva Liberal School on June 3, with the email stating: 'Police are sleeping, they cannot do anything… We are going to blast a bomb in your school to bring to police's attention about the rapist who raped the girl in Lemon Tree hotel in Hyderabad in 2023.' Following a complaint from the school, an FIR was lodged at the Cyber Crime police station in Ahmedabad. The investigation led officers to Chennai, where Joshilda was arrested. She allegedly confessed to sending the emails and to fabricating multiple IDs in Prabhakar's name. 'She had a one-sided relationship with Divij Prabhakar, who married someone else in February 2025,' said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Sharad Singhal at a press conference. 'To frame him, she created multiple email accounts in his name and used them to send bomb threats across the country. She also used the dark web to mask her digital footprint.' Joshilda, a robotics engineer by qualification, allegedly sent threats not only in Gujarat but to 11 other states, targeting events involving VIP movement or large gatherings. 'These threats misdirected police resources and spread panic among citizens,' said JCP Singhal. 'Her arrest is significant, especially with the Jagannath Rath Yatra scheduled in Ahmedabad on June 27.' In Gujarat alone, Joshilda is said to have sent four threat emails to Geneva Liberal School on June 3, 5, 12, and 15, three emails to Divya Jyoti School in Bopal on June 14 and 15, and 13 threats to the Narendra Modi Stadium on May 7 and 13. One of the emails to the stadium read: *'Bomb successfully planted in Narendra Modi Stadium… India has 1,500 trained military and army involved in this mission for Operation Sindoor. Women officers take the lead… India is prepared with more drones to attack…' On June 12, following the Air India crash, she also allegedly sent an email to BJ Medical College: 'I think now you know power. Like we sent you a mail yesterday, we crashed the Air India plane with our former CM… Well done to our pilot. Now you know we are not playing.' The Gujarat Police are coordinating with counterparts in Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, Bihar, Telangana, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana, where similar hoax threats were reportedly sent.
