Guijarat IAS officer arrested in earthquake rehabilitation scam
The arrest of senior IAS officer Pradeep Sharma, municipal commissioner of Bhavnagar, in a Rs70 crore land scam in land allotment scam to earthquake affected people of Kutch has shocked the state bureaucracy.
GUJARAT CADRE IAS officer Pradip Sharma was arrested in a Rs 70 Crore land scam involving irregularities in Kutch earthquake rehabilitation after the natural disaster of 2001.He is also brother Additional DGP Kuldeep Sharma. Many traders, who were not even affected by the calamity, managed to get land by presenting fake certificates. A complaint in this regard was filed by Henry Chako, Kutch secretary of an NGO called All India Anti Corruption and Crime Prevention council in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhuj in August 2007. The NGO filed another complaint in Gujarat High Court in January 2008. Following this, the court had ordered the CID Crime of Bhuj to probe the matter.In the complaint filed by the NGO nobody's name was mentioned. But the CID, in its prime facie inquiry, identified the then collector Sharma, and three office bearers of the Nav Nirman Trust -its president Arvind Thackar, joint general secretary Prabodh Thackar and executive committee member Shambhu Popat as the offenders. Arvind Thackar is the former president of Bhuj Chamber of CommerceThe CID investigation revealed that while many beneficiaries had certificates that did not have the signatures and stamp of the collector, there were others who were not even traders. According to the findings of the NGO only 11 of the 400 people who had the certificates were genuine beneficiaries
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