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  • Court Denies Anticipatory Bail To Ex-IAS Probationer Puja Khedkar In Quota Misuse Case |

    A Delhi court refused to grant anticipatory bail to ex-IAS probationer Puja Khedkar, who faces allegations of cheating and misusing OBC and PwD quota benefits on Thursday. Additional Sessions Judge Devender Kumar Jangala emphasized the need for an investigation into possible internal assistance from the UPSC in Khedkar’s case. The judge also expanded the investigation scope, instructing the Delhi Police to probe whether others have improperly benefited from OBC and PwD quotas.

    Following these developments, the UPSC annulled Khedkar’s candidacy and barred her from future examinations. The decision came after a hearing on Wednesday where Khedkar’s lawyer cited an “imminent threat of arrest.” Both the prosecution and UPSC counsel argued against her bail, accusing her of exploiting the system.

    The UPSC counsel warned of her potential to further abuse the law, describing her as a “resourceful person.” Khedkar stands accused of providing false information in her UPSC Civil Services Examination application for the year 2022.

  • IAS Puja Khedkar’s Mother Seen Arguing With Pune Metro Workers In New Viral Video |

    A video purportedly showing controversial IAS officer Puja Khedkar’s mother arguing with Metro rail construction workers in Pune has surfaced, days after another clip of her wielding a gun and threatening a group of men went viral.In the video, Khedkar’s mother Manorama is seen arguing with the Metro rail construction workers where some police personnel are also present. But the exact date of the clip, which lasts 27 seconds, is not known. After the previous video of Manorama brandishing a gun went viral, the Pune Rural police last week said a probe would be conducted to ascertain facts, including whether she possessed a licence for the firearm.

    The incident in the video was about a land parcel bought by Puja’s father Dilip Khedkar, a retired Maharashtra government officer, in Dhadwali village in Pune’s Mulshi tehsil, an official earlier said. Locals had claimed the Khedkars had encroached on the land of neighbouring farmers. The two-minute video shows Manorama Khedkar, accompanied by her security guards, engaged in a heated argument with the neighbours. She can be seen yelling at a man with a pistol in her hand. She walks up to him and waves the gun in his face before concealing it in her hand.

    VIDEO| मनोरमा खेडकर यांचा आणखी एक व्हिडीओ व्हायरल #IASPoojaKhedkar #ManoramaKhedkar pic.twitter.com/QPjvBC37xl
    — ZEE २४ तास (@zee24taasnews) July 16, 2024

    Puja Khedkar, a 2023-batch IAS officer, is accused of posing as an OBC non-creamy layer candidate in her Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) candidature. She also claimed that she was visually and mentally disabled, but refused to take tests to corroborate her claims. She came under the spotlight after reports about her alleged demands for a separate office and official car and unauthorised use of a beacon on her private car during her posting in Pune emerged. She was subsequently transferred to Washim from Pune.

    However, the government on Tuesday put on hold the district training programme of the controversial IAS officer as she was summoned back to the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Uttarakhand’s Mussoorie for “necessary action”. A letter by Maharashtra additional chief secretary Nitin Gadre said the academy had decided to put her district training programme on hold, and immediately recalled her.