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“Pal met one Leena Singh, owner of a fair price shop, and used login ID and password to make 1,400 fake transactions,” said STF officials. IG STF Amitabh Yash said that the total loss under the scam could be pegged at over Rs 20 crore and more arrests were likely. The department had found that 43 districts were affected by the menace and registered 22 FIRs across UP. LUCKNOW: In a major breakthrough, Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (UP STF) arrested three persons involved in public distribution system (PDS) scam on Sunday.An internal audit of food and logistics department had detected pilferage of 2.2 lakh tonnes of wheat via 1.86 lakh fraudulent transactions. Similarly, the third accused Pal, a computer operator, had come in contact with one Sonu Singh who told him about job of uploading and editing data on food and logistics department’s website..