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.
Earlier in April, the court had permitted two of Sharma’s co-accused Sunil Milak and Asim Chakravarti to turn approver in the case and had granted pardon.
The district rural court of principal district and sessions judge DM Vyas is trying a case where Sharma has been 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.