 On 31 August 2008 he was dismissed from the Mumbai police on charges of corruption but was reinstated on 16 August 2017 after he was proven innocent of those charges.Pradeep Sharma resigned from Mumbai police in July 2019 after a 35 year long career.Sharma officially joined the ruling Shiv Sena in Maharashtra on September 13th, 2019 and will be contesting in the maharashtra state assembly elections.