Bengaluru: The Bengaluru police have said they have arrested a woman software engineer for allegedly sending multiple hoax bomb threat emails to schools and colleges across the city.

The accused, Rene Joshilda, an employee of a private software firm, was taken into custody by the North Division Cybercrime police. She confessed that she sent hoax emails to several institutions, including a public school at Kalasipalya, on June 14 this year, the police said.

Investigations revealed that Joshilda, who was lodged in the Ahmedabad Central Prison in Gujarat in connection with a similar offence, had used VPN services and virtual mobile numbers obtained through an app called GetCood to mask her identity. She had created seven WhatsApp accounts to execute her plan.

The city police brought her to

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