Lucknow Prisoner, Accused Of Rs 3700 Crore Fraud, Sends Threat Mail To Judge Using Cop’s Phone

In a shocking incident, a prisoner accused of cyber fraud worth around Rs 3,700 crore allegedly sent a threatening email to an Allahabad High Court judge using a police constable’s phone. The accused is currently lodged in Lucknow jail, and an FIR has been filed against him over the threat mail.

As per a report by PTI, the accused, identified as Anubhav Mittal, is in jail for duping nearly seven lakh investors of Rs 3,700 crore through a bogus online trading scheme.

Mittal allegedly sent the email under a fake name to frame another inmate.

The message warned that a judge of the Lucknow bench “was going to be murdered,” the official said, adding that an inquiry by the Cyber Cell and Crime Branch stated that the email originated from Constable Ajay

Kumar’s phone.

“A case has been registered against Anubhav Mittal and Ajay Kumar, police constable (posted at the Police Lines) for criminal intimidation and under the IT Act. The FIR was registered on Friday. The police constable had accompanied Mittal during a hearing in court on November 4,” the senior official told PTI.

The cop said Mittal had borrowed his phone on November 4 to check his case status and secretly created a new email ID, setting a timer to auto-send the threat message the next morning, the police said.

Mittal allegedly orchestrated the act to implicate fellow inmate Anandeshwar Agrahari, jailed since December 2023 in a murder case, following personal enmity, they added.

Mittal, arrested by a special task force in 2017, already faces 324 criminal cases in connection with a Rs 3,700-crore scam. His wife Ayushi and father Sunil Mittal are also co-accused and remain in judicial custody.