BHUJ (GUJ): (Apr 19) A court in Gujarat’s Kutch district on Saturday sentenced former IAS officer Pradeep Sharma to five years of rigorous imprisonment in a 2011 case on irregularities in the allotment of government land to a private company that caused loss to the public exchequer when he was the then district collector.
The court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate JV Buddha in Bhuj sentenced Sharma, urban planner Natubhai Desai, then mamlatdar Narendra Prajapati and then resident deputy collector Ajitsinh Zala to five years imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 each on them.
The case pertains to irregularities committed in the allotment of government land to Saw Pipes Pvt Ltd in 2004 when Sharma was the collector of Kutch district. PTI
