India, April 5 -- LUCKNOW The Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed to investigate the case against 'high profile middleman' Nikant Jain, 39, who allegedly sought bribe on behalf of an IAS officer from an industrial group which had applied for approval of their solar plant proposal through Invest UP, to focus on unravelling the nexus involved behind this corruption.

On Friday, the state police authorities set up the three-member SIT led by an ASP-rank officer. The SIT is led by 2000 batch Provincial Police Service (PPS) officer Vikas Chandra Tripathi, currently posted in Barabanki as ASP (north).

ACP (Gomti Nagar) VK Dwivedi, a 2014 batch PPS officer and Lucknow crime branch inspector Alok Kumar Rao will also be part of it, said a sen...