Ahmedabad city's Cyber Crime Branch, on Monday said it has arrested a 30-year-old Chennai-based woman techie for allegedly sending 21 hoax bomb threats to as many as 12 states in an attempt to implicate her former colleague, who had denied to marry her.
The woman has been identified as Rene Joshilda. Joshilda worked as a senior consultant with Deloitte in Chennai. The hoax mails she made included multiple schools in Gujarat, Narendra Modi cricket stadium and BJ Medical College.
In one of the emails, Joshilda even claimed responsibility for Air India’s Ahmedabad–London plane crash on 12 June, in which 241 people on board were killed.
According to police, the woman was obsessed with a male colleague Divij Prabhakar, who was unaware of her feelings. Over the past two years, her obsession with Prabhakar was to the extend that she harassed women colleague who interacted with him and even made a fake marriage certificate and circulated it to all her office colleagues.
Divij subsequently filed a complaint with the Chennai Cyber Cell, what made her angry further was Prabhakar's upcoming marriage in February this year. Between February and June 2025, she is alleged to have sent multiple bomb threat emails using Prabhakar's identity to schools, stadiums, and hospitals across 12 states, including Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Maharashtra, among others.
“She did all this to frame her former colleague, Divij Prabhakar, who refused to marry her. It was a one-sided love affair,” said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), Sharad Singhal, said while speaking to the media.
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.
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