Ahmedabad: A special court on Saturday sentenced retired IAS officer Pradeep Sharma to five years’ imprisonment in a money laundering case related to the sanctioning of government land to a private company at concessional rates between 2003 and 2006, when he was the Kutch district collector.

The court also fined him ₹ 50,000.

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The Ahmedabad zonal office of the ED had registered a criminal case against Sharma and others in March 2012 under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Sharma was first arrested in July 2016 and released on bail in March 2018.

The investigation revealed that Sharma, as the then chairman of the district land pricing committee,

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