In a relief to suspended IAS officer Pradeep Sharma, the Gujarat High Court on Tuesday granted him bail in a decade- old case of bribery. Sharma was arrested in the case and was in jail since March 2018.
With regular bail granted by Justice AJ Desai to Sharma, the suspended Gujarat cadre IAS officer is likely to be released from Sabarmati Jail on Wednesday. He was arrested on March 9 by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for an offence.
Sharma was arrested for taking bribe worth Rs 25 lakh from a contractor way back in 2007-08 when he was Managing Director of Bhavnagar based Gujarat government owned ship building company Alcock Ashdown (Guj) ltd.
He was also collector of Bhavnagar district at that point of time. An FIR was filed against him based on statements of one Sahayraj Savrimatthu. According to Savrimatthu Sharma had taken bribe from him to clear his pending bills.