Bangalore:
Ashoka Kumar approached the police on Monday with a complaint that she has been receiving e-mails from her husband. The woman's husband had died two years ago, police said.
In her complaint, educationist Ashoka said she started receiving the spooky mails from August this year.
"The messages include 'how are you,' 'have you forgotten me', etc. The e-mails come attached with my husband's photo, which give me the jitters," she said.
Ashoka's husband Nadar Pushpakumar passed away in China on May 2, 2008. On the same day, one of his friends, who had taken a loan from him, credited Rs8.75 lakh into his account.
"Some miscreants who knew this are trying to get that money from me. They are sending forged documents to prove my husband is alive," Ashoka said. She ignored those mails.
Recently she received a proforma invoice from Pushpakumar's company with his signature and an agreement made with one Aji Kumar of Tamil Nadu on May 2 this year.
"I would have fallen into their trap if I hadn't seen my husband's body. Fifteen days after he had died, his body was sent to India from China. I am sure that he is no more," the woman, who runs Bishop Sergeant High School for the poor in Ashwanthanagar said.
Ashoka logged into her husband's e-mail on receiving the agreement. "I found several mails sent from his ID to his friends and the owner of the company. As it is being misused, I lodged the complaint with the police."
Puspakumar had been a manager of a state-run leather industrial unit, before he took voluntary retirement and joined a Chinese company. "I was told he had died of food poisoning in China. Later I started receiving messages and threat calls. Once a stranger visited me and claimed that my husband had sold his property for Rs 30 lakh. When I started questioning him, he fled." The Kothanur police said they had registered a case and were investigating.
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