NEW DELHI: Manorama Khedkar, the mom of constroversial IAS officer Puja Khedkar, was despatched to 14-day judicial custody by a Pune court docket in a case regarding alleged felony intimidation tied to a land dispute.
Manorama was produced earlier than the Justice of the Peace court docket in metropolis by the Pune police on Monday after the court docket had prolonged her judicial custody until July 22.
Police had booked Manorama and her husband Dilip and 4 others after a video surfaced displaying her allegedly threatening some individuals with a gun over a land dispute at Dhadwali village within the district’s Mulshi tehsil in 2023.
Manorama was apprehended on July 18 from a lodge in Hirkaniwadi village close to Mahad in Raigad district, the place she had been hiding.
In the meantime, a periods court docket within the metropolis granted interim safety from arrest to Puja’s father, Dilip Khedkar, till July 25.
Puja Khedkar is going through quite a few allegations, together with misconduct associated to energy and privileges, misuse of incapacity and Different Backward Class (non-creamy layer) quotas to safe her candidature within the civil service examination, and manipulation of her identification to exceed the permissible variety of makes an attempt.
The Centre has shaped a committee to re-examine the paperwork she introduced to safe her candidature within the civil companies examination and her subsequent choice. Moreover, a felony case has been registered in opposition to her for “misrepresenting and falsifying details” following a “thorough investigation” by the UPSC.
(With company inputs)
