Snoopgate: Gujarat government acted in discriminatory manner says Pradeep Sharma

The state government had filed its response on a petition filed by Sharma seeking CBI probe in snoopgate controversy.  

Sharma, a 1984 batch IAS officer, had in 2011 filed the petition for handing over the cases against him to CBI and in November 2013, he took the controversy over the snoopgate to the apex court.

Countering the allegation levelled by Sharma, the state government had said that it came to know several facts regarding large-scale suspicious financial transactions, amassing of benami properties by him and about his illicit relationship after his phones were kept under surveillance in 2009.

The court had earlier refused Sharma's plea to allow him to travel to the United States to meet his wife and son, who are American citizens.

Refuting all allegations, Sharma said “The State Government in the reply affidavit does not make any clear unambiguous averment denying the veracity of the tapes.