Businessman Accuses Top UP Official Of Corruption, Gets Detained By Cops | Read

The Uttar Pradesh Police has detained a man who accused a senior bureaucrat in Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's office of corruption and filed a complaint with Governor Ram Naik. Abhishek Gupta, a Lucknow-based businessman, had written an email to Mr Naik on April 18, alleging that the senior IAS officer SP Goyal, the Principal Secretary to Mr Adityanath, was asking for a Rs. 25 lakh-bribe to clear formalities for setting up a petrol pump in the Hardoi district. This complaint was forwarded by the Governor to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on April 30. However, a leaked photo of the letter went viral yesterday.