New Delhi, March 9 The Supreme Court on Monday transferred the FIRs filed in different states against a woman, accused of sending emails threatening blasts, including one at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, to Karnataka.
A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta was informed that, as of now, 23 FIRs had been filed against the woman, who was a consultant for a multinational corporation in Chennai.
The bench was also told that 12 of the 23 FIRs were filed in Karnataka, while six were registered in Gujarat.
According to the police, the woman had sent these emails to defame a man, whom she had hoped would be her husband, after he had married another woman.
The Supreme Court passed the order while hearing her plea to combine the FIRs filed against her.
"She appears to be a dangerous individual. The stadiums are secure, and the high courts are secure. If your client threatens the secretary general of this court via email today, what will happen? There could be a stampede," the bench told the lawyer representing the woman.
The lawyer argued that the woman was not mentally stable.
He said that even after her arrest, emails were sent from her account.
"That is AI (artificial intelligence)," the bench observed.
After hearing the arguments, the bench allowed the petition and ordered that all matters be transferred to Karnataka.
According to the Gujarat Police, she had used fake email IDs, virtual private networks, and the dark web to hide her identity and location.
An engineer trained in robotics, she had been working as a senior consultant for a multinational firm in Chennai since 2022.
The police alleged that the woman had sent emails from anonymous accounts threatening to blow up the Narendra Modi Stadium, the BJ Medical College, and at least two schools in Ahmedabad.
It was also alleged that she had sent emails to various locations in 11 other states, besides Gujarat.