Chennai Techie Held for Making Bomb Threat Calls to RGIA
Investigators traced the emails to Joshilda, who was subsequently apprehended in Chennai and brought to Hyderabad. She was taken into custody by the RGIA police on Saturday for custodial interrogation.
Hyderabad: A Chennai-based woman techie, who sent 21 hoax bomb threats, including two to the Shamshabad airport, to 12 states, was arrested by the RGIA police on Saturday. Police said she attempted to implicate her former colleague who had rejected her marriage proposal.
According to RGIA inspector J. Balraju, on July 18 and 25, Rene Joshilda, 29, a senior consultant at an MNC professional services company in Chennai, allegedly sent threatening emails claiming that bombs were planted on international flights scheduled to depart from the RGIA. They were later found to be hoaxes.
Investigators traced the emails to Joshilda, who was subsequently apprehended in Chennai and brought to Hyderabad. She was taken into custody by the RGIA police on Saturday for custodial interrogation.
Apart from RGIA, Joshilda had sent mails to many schools in Gujarat, the Narendra Modi cricket stadium and BJ Medical College. According to reports, in one of the emails, she also claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad plane crash.
Police said Joshilda had feelings for a colleague, Divij Prabhakar, and had proposed marriage, which he declined. As her obsession towards the colleague grew, she allegedly harassed a female employee who was talking to him and even made a fake marriage certificate in her name and circulated it to all her colleagues. Following this, the man lodged a complaint with the Chennai cybercrime police.
In an act of revenge, she orchestrated the bomb hoax and tried to frame him by creating digital evidence suggesting his involvement. Joshilda has since been produced before a local court and remanded to judicial custody on Friday.
