BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh cyber cell headquarters have registered a case to probe a complaint from a convicted prisoner alleging that he was forced by jail authorities to hack mobile phones of various bigwigs including IPS officers, judges and state home minister’s secretary besides being persuaded to commit digital frauds and earn money for them.
Cyber cell has constituted three teams to probe the allegations, considering it to be of a ‘serious nature’. Complaint was lodged by a forgery convict named Anant Amar Agrawal – a resident of Maharashtra – who was recently transferred from Ujjain to Bhopal Central jail on security grounds by the trial court.
According to Agrawal – who has multiple aliases like Krishna Keshkar, Abhijit Madne and Anant Agrawal – he was provided with a laptop and internet inside the Ujjain jail with which he generated crores through digital frauds using credit cards bought from dark net. Besides, he was asked to load ‘malware’ into the mobile phones of various VIPs of the state. “We have received a complaint from the jail department and have registered an FIR to inquire into his allegations,” Yogesh Deshmukh, DG Cyber cell told TOI.
Agrawal – has accused a woman jail superintendent and a deputy jail superintendent of harassing him to do the alleged conduct – in a complaint before the trial court at Ujjain. Court forwarded it to the jail department for inquiry and subsequently it was forwarded to the cyber cell for investigation. While major allegations couldn’t be established, one of the former jail superintendent of Ujjain is now on radar for giving an access of laptop and internet to the convicted prisoner in stark defiance of the jail manual.
Agrawal also claims that he passed out from IIT-Kanpur and has also completed his further studies from a foreign university. Investigators found that he was an 8th class fail and had multiple cases of forgery registered against him in other states as well. Officials however found that the former jail superintendent of Ujjain had given him a laptop and net to search and translate materials for a book that he was writing on Tantia Tope.
“There is nothing significant in his hacking allegations. They are baseless. Important is that he was given the internet inside the jail. Action would be taken once this fact is verified,” said an officer wishing not to be quoted. Officers may conduct a psychological analysis of the complainant after initial investigations into his complaint and contradictory statements, say sources.
