Ahmedabad, Dec 6 (PTI) 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 Rs 50,000.

Special PMLA judge K M Sojitra convicted him under Sections 3 and 4 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The court further ordered that Sharma’s properties seized by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) during the investigation would remain confiscated by the Central government.

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 an

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