Chennai techie’s toxic love sparked bomb hoaxes across 12 states

30-year-old Rene Joshilda fell for her colleague during a Bengaluru project — but when he married someone else, love turned into vengeance.

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00:00This techie's obsession with a man led to 21 bomb threats and panic across India.

00:05On June 13, 2025, P.J. Medical College in Ahmedabad received an alarming email purportedly

00:10from Divich Prabhakar.

00:11The message read, We crashed the Air India plane yesterday, you thought it was a hoax

00:15and now we are serious.

00:17The investigation, however, led not to Divich, but to Rene Jashilda.

00:20Jashilda, a 30-year-old robotics engineer at Deloitte, allegedly fell in love with a

00:24male colleague, but it was one-sided, police said.

00:27Rene met Divich Prabhakar during a project in Bengaluru and fell for him.

00:31Her unreciprocated feelings led to intensive stalking.

00:34But love turned into vengeance when he married someone else in February 2025.

00:39To frame him, Rene then reportedly sent hoax-bombed threats targeting schools, hospitals and stadiums.

00:4421 threats across 12 states, including Gujarat, Maharashtra, Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, Bihar

00:50and Punjab police said.

00:51Rene Jashilda used her tech skills, dark web, encrypted email IDs and even Pakistani VPN

00:57services as well as accounts in the name of the man who never reciprocated her feelings.

01:01Police also revealed a disturbing pattern of harassment in Jashilda's past.

01:05In two years, 80 virtual numbers, hundreds of threats, some even harassing women linked

01:09to Divich and even a fake marriage certificate with Divich.

01:13In June 2025, one small digital slip exposed her and Jashilda now sits in custody, facing

01:19serious IT and criminal charges.