Institute of Legal and Management Studies

The Supreme Court today issued notice on a plea to club FIRs registered against Chennai techie Rene Joshilda accused of sending bomb threat emails across multiple states seemingly to frame a man who refused to marry her.

A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta passed the order after hearing Senior Advocate Devadatt Kamat (for Joshilda) who argued that the prosecution was not bonafide and the emails were continuing to be sent from Joshilda's VPN (virtual private network) after her arrest.

The bench asked Kamat to substantiate the contention by showing any email which was sent post her detention, on which the senior counsel said that the same would be produced on the next date. Though a prayer was made to restrain further FIRs on similar allegations, the bench declined to pass any "blanket order".

To recap, Joshilda, a 29-year-old robotics engineer in Chennai, was booked for sending bomb threat emails to different states, apparently out of revenge on a man she could not marry.

As per reports, she used fake email IDs, VPNs, and the dark web to mask her identity and location. Some of the fake email IDs created were in the name of the man she wanted to marry.

Apart from Gujarat, threatening emails were stated to have been sent to Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, Bihar, Telangana, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, and Haryana.

Case Title: RENE JOSHILADA Versus STATE REPRESENTED BY THE SUB INSPECTOR OF POLICE, SARKHEJ POLICE STATION, AHEMADABAD, GUJARAT AND ORS., Diary No. 51497-2025