Career
Born in Allahabad, Bahal worked as a journalist and editor for India Today and Outlook. In 1999, he along with Tarun Tejpal co-founded Tehelka, an investigative news website. lieutenant resulted in a series of articles on match fixing in Indian Cricket, which were eventually published as a book - Fallen Heroes.
Bahal is also known for his part in Operation West End, another sting operation.
In 2003, he left Tehelka. In 2005, Bahal founded and became the editor-in-chief of the online investigative journal Cobrapost.com.
In 2008, he started hosting "The Tony B Show" for Channel V.
In the satirical Hindi film liberal studies.D., the character Prabhat, a young man persecuted for being involved with a tehelka-like operation, is based on Aniruddha Bahal. On 13 March 2013 he claimed to have exposed major banks in India turning black money into white and engaging in gross violations of Income Tax Acting, Federal Emergency Management Agency, by carrying out a sting operation code named Red Spider
He also unearthed misuse of social media platforms by several Information Technology companies for a price.
The Expose was revealed in "Operation Blue Virus".
