Suspended IAS officer Pradeep Sharma was arrested from his Ahmedabad residence in wee hours of Tuesday in connection with corruption charges in a land given to a corrugated boxes manufacturing company in Kutch where in his wife has also been a partner.
Sharma, who recently had moved court to file an FIR against PM Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah for allegedly snooping him and a woman architect, alleged that he had been manipulated by former Additional Chief Secretary P Pannervel, whose wife is 50 per cent partner in the company named Value Packaging.
Sharma, who in courts has alleged that a total of five corruption cases against him was revenge campaign by the former Gujarat chief minister Modi, was picked up by ACB team from his mother’s house in Ahmedabad around 2.30 am and till last reports came in he was kept in house arrest at his Gandhinagar residence.
All the five cases were registered in Kutch where he served as collector after the 2001 earthquake. Sharma, who was arrested in 2010 from his official residence as Bhavnagar Municipal Commissioner, was released in 2013 on bail. He faced arrest one after another in five cases.
Speaking to The Indian Express Sharma called it a conspiracy.
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