Former IAS officer Pradeep Sharma has been remanded to a two-day custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The ED took Sharma into custody in connection with a money laundering case. The remand was granted by a special court in Ahmedabad. The ED had sought Sharma’s custody for further investigation into the case. Sharma, a 1984-batch IAS officer of the Gujarat cadre, had taken voluntary retirement from service in 2019. He is currently a member of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and had unsuccessfully contested the 2012 Gujarat assembly elections. The ED had conducted searches at Sharma’s residence and office in Gandhinagar earlier this week. The agency is probing allegations of money laundering against him. Sharma is expected to be questioned by the ED during his remand period. The former bureaucrat was known for his tough stance against corruption during his tenure in the government. He had handled several high-profile cases during his career. The ED is expected to uncover more details about the money laundering case during Sharma’s custody. The case has drawn significant attention due to Sharma’s background as a former IAS officer and his political affiliations. Stay tuned for more updates on this developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former IAS officer Pradeep Sharma has been remanded to a two-day custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The ED took Sharma into custody in connection with a money laundering case. The remand was granted by a special court in Ahmedabad. The ED had sought Sharma’s custody for further investigation into the case. Sharma, a 1984-batch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":63426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-117516821imgsize-93623.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-117516821imgsize-93623-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-117516821imgsize-93623-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-117516821imgsize-93623-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-117516821imgsize-93623-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-117516821imgsize-93623.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-117516821imgsize-93623.jpg",1280,720,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/author\/"},"category_info":"JUST IN<\/a>","tag_info":"JUST IN","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}