Former Gujarat IAS officer Pradeep Sharma, 3 others get five years RI in land allotment case

A court in Kutch district, Gujarat, sentenced former IAS officer Pradeep Sharma to five years of rigorous imprisonment on Saturday in connection with a 2011 case involving irregularities in the allotment of government land to a private company, which resulted in a loss to the public exchequer. Sharma, who was the district collector at the time, was found guilty of wrongdoing related to the 2004 land allocation to Saw Pipes Pvt Ltd.

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