Overview

• Police arrested Rene Joshilda on June 20 at her Chennai residence after tracing a slip in her anonymized digital trail.
• The 30-year-old robotics engineer and Deloitte consultant allegedly sent 21 bomb threat emails to stadiums, schools and medical colleges across 12 states.
• Officers say she masterminded the campaign to frame Divij Prabhakar, a former colleague whom she loved and who married another woman in February.
• Investigators recovered extensive digital and paper evidence showing she used fake email accounts, VPNs and dark-web tools to mask her identity.
• Law enforcement teams across more than a dozen states are coordinating to verify her email claim of causing the June Air India crash and to identify any accomplices.