In the two criminal cases, Sharma was accused of allotting land to Welspun Group by granting non-agricultural (NA) land permission at a discriminatory rate when he was the Kutch collector in 2004.
The court of Principal District and Sessions Judge DM Vyas pronounced the verdict. Earlier, they had rejected the regular bail plea and an interim bail plea moved by Tathya’s father Pragnesh Patel.
Opposing the grant of the temporary bail, the investigating officer submitted before the court that Pragnesh had previously taken treatment on November 4, 2019 “and for the last three years and nine months…has not taken any treatment”.