An inmate of a Lucknow jail, arrested in a Rs 3,700-crore fraud case, allegedly sent an email from a constable’s mobile phone to the Allahabad High Court, claiming there was a threat to the judge’s life for denying bail to a murder accused.
Prisoner Anubhav Mittal and police constable Ajay Kumar have been booked. The policeman was stopped.
According to the police, Mittal sent the threatening email to implicate fellow prisoners with whom he had a personal dispute.
After learning about the threatening email sent on November 4, an investigation was launched, and police soon found that the message was sent from the mobile phone of police constable Ajay Kumar, who was working on the police reserve lines.
The constable, who was taken into custody, told police that on November 4, he took Anubhav Mittal to court for a hearing.
The policeman claimed that Mittal borrowed his mobile phone on the pretext of checking the status of his own phone.
Police suspect that Mittal secretly created a new email ID on the cop’s device and scheduled a message to be sent automatically the next morning.
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“The email, sent by an anonymous person, claimed that Anandeshwar Agrahari – an inmate imprisoned for the alleged murder of his wife – intended to kill the judge as he had refused him bail,” a senior police officer said, adding that the email was sent to both the prison department and the Allahabad High Court.
The police found that Mittal had orchestrated the trapping of Agrahari due to a personal dispute.
“The investigation also revealed that this was not Mittal’s first such attempt. Earlier, he had used the mobile phone of a visitor who came to meet him in court to send an email to the prison department and made false allegations against Agrihari,” a police officer said.
The visitor had previously been jailed with Mittal before getting bail.
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“At the time, the administration did not take the matter seriously, and it was ignored,” an officer said.
Police arrested Anubhav Mittal and his wife, Ayushi Mittal, in connection with an alleged Rs 3,700-crore scam in 2017. The couple allegedly misled investors by falsely claiming that Mittal’s company was “ISO certified”.
(Tags for translation) Threatening email to inmate of Lucknow Jail
