A screen grab of Anti Corruption Bureau website.
“This is a case of allegedly taking bribe for extending benefits to a company when he was collector of Kutch,” Bhatia said.
Sharma has been booked under Prevention of Corruption Act sections 11 (public servant obtaining valuable gift from person concerned in proceedings or business transacted by such public servant), 13(1)(D) (to obtain valuable things by corrupt or illegal means) and 13(2) (criminal misconduct by public servant).
The conversations, purportedly between August and September 2009, did not specifically mention Modi by name but referred to a ‘saheb’, which the portals claimed was the Gujarat chief minister at whose instance snooping was done, a charge denied by Shah, who in now the BJP president.
As per the complaint, Sharma, an IAS officer of 1984 batch, had allegedly allotted land to Welspun at 25% of the prevailing market rates which resulted in illegal benefits to the company and loss of around Rs1.2 crore to the state exchequer.
In return for the favour, the company allegedly made Sharma’s wife a 30% partner in one of its subsidiaries — Value Packaging — without her having made any investment and extended benefits of Rs29.5 lakhs to her, according to the complaint. “The money was first deposited in the account of Sharma’s wife and then transferred to his account,” it further said.
Enforcement Directorate had on Monday seized properties of Sharma under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), including a piece of land in Dehgam village of Gandhinagar district and a bungalow in the state capital, also in connection with the deal with Welspun.
“The land in Dehgam is worth Rs65 to 70 lakh while the bungalow itself is worth Rs1 crore. We attached the land and 35% of the bungalow to arrive at Rs1 crore figure to recover the loss,” said a senior ED official.
Sharma is facing six criminal corruption cases in Gujarat.
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