Police have registered a First Information Report (FIR) against Anubhav Mittal, the primary accused in the Rs 3,700 crore cyber fraud case, for allegedly sending a threatening email to a judge of the Allahabad High Court. A police constable has also been booked in connection with the incident, which allegedly originated from Lucknow jail where Mittal is currently lodged.
According to police officials, the FIR was registered on Friday against Mittal and Constable Ajay Kumar (posted at the Police Lines) for criminal intimidation and offences under the Information Technology (IT) Act.
The matter came to light after an email was sent to a judge of the High Court’s Lucknow bench, containing a warning that the judge “was going to be murdered.” An subsequent inquiry conducted by the Cyber Cell and Crime Branch traced the email’s origin to a mobile phone belonging to Constable Kumar.
Detailing the sequence of events, a senior official told PTI, “The police constable had accompanied Mittal during a hearing in court on November 4.”
Based on the investigation, police reported that Constable Kumar stated Mittal had borrowed his phone on November 4 under the pretext of checking his case status. It is alleged that Mittal then secretly created a new email ID on the device and set a timer to auto-send the threat message the following morning, November 5.
Police added that the act was allegedly orchestrated by Mittal in an attempt to falsely implicate a fellow inmate, Anandeshwar Agrahari, with whom he reportedly had “personal enmity.” Agrahari has been incarcerated since December 2023 in connection with a separate murder case.
Anubhav Mittal was arrested by a special task force in 2017, accused of defrauding nearly seven lakh investors of approximately Rs 3,700 crore through a bogus online trading scheme. He currently faces 324 criminal cases related to the scam. His wife, Ayushi, and father, Sunil Mittal, are co-accused in the case and also remain in judicial custody.
