LUCKNOW, Feb. 22 -- It began with a love triangle and a village panchayat in Azamgarh. It ended with bomb threats to a district court, 50 fake email IDs, and an arrest by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (UP ATS). The man at the centre of it all, police say, was not a terrorist but a jilted lover whose humiliation turned into an elaborate plot to send police after his girlfriend's fiance.

Vishal Ranjan, a resident of Baksupur in Azamgarh, was arrested on February 22 after the UP ATS traced a series of bomb threat emails to him through digital forensics, VPN usage logs and social media tracking. The emails were received on February 17 by the District Judge of Jaunpur, police officials said on Sunday.

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