Jilted in love, woman behind fake bomb threat emails to Bengaluru schools arrested
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Bengaluru: The Cyber Crime Police of Bengaluru North Division have arrested a woman identified as Rene Joshilda for allegedly sending fake bomb threat emails to several schools and colleges in the city.
According to police, 30-year-old Rene Joshilda, originally from Tamil Nadu, was brought to Bengaluru from Ahmedabad Central Jail in Gujarat through a body warrant. During interrogation, she reportedly admitted to having sent the fake bomb threats.
Rene, a robotic engineer by profession and a BE graduate, had previously worked with a private company. On June 14, a private school under the Kalasipalya police limits received an email claiming a bomb threat. Similar emails were later sent to other schools across Bengaluru, causing widespread panic.
City Police Commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh had transferred the investigation of these serial fake bomb threat cases to the Cyber Crime Police of the North Division. Using technical analysis, the police traced the messages back to Rene.
Investigations revealed that the accused had been using VPN services to hide her location and operated multiple WhatsApp accounts, around six to seven, using virtual numbers created through the Gatecode application. Police said she had sent fake bomb threats not only to schools in Karnataka but also to educational institutions across at least 11 other states.
The accused reportedly took to this activity after a personal dispute. She was said to be in love with a man named Prabhakar from Bengaluru, who rejected her. When he got married to another woman earlier this year, Rene allegedly decided to tarnish his image. She created an email account using his name and sent threatening messages to various schools and institutions across India, claiming that “schools would be blown up like the Air India plane crash at Narendra Modi Stadium in Gujarat.”
Rene has seven cases registered against her in Bengaluru alone and more than 40 cases across Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Punjab, and other states. She was earlier arrested by Ahmedabad police and sent to judicial custody. After her role was confirmed in the Bengaluru cases through technical evidence, city police took her into custody for further questioning.
Police Commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh confirmed that investigations are ongoing into her involvement in similar fake bomb threat cases nationwide.
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Sangh Parivar still afraid of Mahatma Gandhi: Kerala CM
Thiruvananthapuram (PTI): Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi on his 78th death anniversary and claimed that the Sangh Parivar was still afraid of him and his memory and that is why his name was removed from the rural employment guarantee scheme.
Vijayan, in a Facebook post, said that Gandhi was killed because of his uncompromising stance on secularism and his vision of a pluralistic India that embraces diversity and disagreement.
He claimed that the Sangh Parivar was afraid of the memory of the Father of the Nation and hence his name was removed from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
"Why are they still afraid of Gandhiji? The answer is simple. Gandhiji's life and vision are the exact opposite of the politics of hatred and alienation envisioned by the Sangh Parivar," the CM contended.
He further claimed that the Sangh Parivar was trying to remove Gandhi from the lives of the ordinary people.
Vijayan said that unity in diversity was "the foundation stone of the Indian Republic" and everyone should be committed to protecting it from the "totalitarian tendencies that suppress dissent".
He claimed that there were certain forces which were trying to "rewrite history and elevate communal murderers as heroes" in order to lead the country towards totalitarianism.
The Marxist veteran said that Gandhi was "not assassinated by a man named Godse, but by an embodiment of the politics of hatred promoted by the Sangh Parivar" which is still trying to attack and destroy the Constitution and the democratic values of the country.
He said that Gandhi's martyrdom was a constant call for the anti-communal struggle.
Leader of Opposition in the state assembly V D Satheesan too claimed that the Sangh Parivar was afraid of Gandhi.
In his message on Facebook paying tribute to the Father of the Nation, Satheesan said that Sangh Parivar was even afraid of the memories of Gandhi and that is why they were "erasing books and writings" to hide things from people.
He too said that the assassin of Gandhi was not just a man, but an ideology.
Satheesan said that even though the Sangh Parivar shot him down, Gandhi still lives on after his death.
Gandhi, the most prominent face of India's freedom movement, was assassinated by Nathuram Godse on this day in 1948.
