Uttar Pradesh STF nabbed a 30-year-old man Peeyush Aggarwal from Ghaziabad for allegedly facilitating transfers and postings of IAS and IPS officers in the state. He has been posing himself a journalist and social worker.

Aggarwal had allegedly fixed a Rs 1.25 crore deal for ensuring that a senior IAS officer is posted as vice-chairperson of Kanpur Development Authority (KDA). However, the deal fell through. He is alleged to have assets worth crores, he stayed in a rented flat at KW Srishti housing society. Originally from Uttarakhand, he had been living in Delhi-NCR for the past 10 years.

He also carried an ID card of DD News which later turned out to be fake. Vishal Vikram Singh, ASP in STF in Lucknow, said their investigation followed an audio clip in which Aggarwal can be purportedly heard talking to his associates about the IAS officer’s posting. After the clip featured on a news channel on May 21, the government ordered an investigation by the STF.