The Enforcement Directorate (ED), Ahmedabad filed a charge-sheet against Pradeep Sharma (Retd IAS:1994:GJ) for money laundering before the designated special court at Ahmedabad on Saturday. ED had filed the prosecution complaint against Sharma on September 27, 2016. Now, this new chargesheet will add to the woes of Sharma.
The ED filed this charge-sheet soon after Sharma was granted bail by the Gujarat High Court earlier this week to enable him secure his house in Gandhinagar which has seen a number of burglaries. Sharma is in jail in a bribery case that took place in 2010. He is facing a number of such cases related to corruption.
ED had initiated money laundering him on the basis of FIRs registered by CID Crime, Rajkot. CID had alleged that Sharma had abused his power as Kutch collector, and caused loss to the exchequer by allotting land to Welspun at a lower rate.