Puja Khedkar's father gets protection from arrest in criminal intimidation case

A sessions court in Pune has granted interim protection from arrest till July 25 to Dilip Khedkar father of controversial probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar in a case where he is accused of threatening a person with a gun over a land dispute reported the PTIThe Pune Rural Police in Maharashtra had on Thursday arrested Manorama Khedkar his wife and Pujas mother in the same caseManorama was remanded in police custody till July 20Dilip Khedkar had moved the court seeking prearrest anticipatory bailAccording to the PTI Judge A N Mare granted him adinterim protection from arrest till July 25 the next date of hearing said a lawyer representing him If the police arrests him before that he will have to be released on bail the lawyer addedA case has been registered at Paud police station against Dilip and Manorama Khedkar besides five others under Indian Penal Code sections 307 attempt to murder 144 unlawful assembly armed with deadly weapon 147 rioting and 506 criminal intimidation and also under the Arms Act as per the PTIThe First Information Report was registered after a viral video showed Manorama purportedly threatening some persons with a gun at Dhadwali village in Punes Mulshi tehsil The incident had taken place in 2023Earlier in the day the Union Public Service Commission UPSC said it had lodged a criminal case against Puja Khedkar for faking her identity to fraudulently avail of attempts in the civil services examination beyond eligibility and taken steps to debar her from future selectionsEngineering firm linked to Manorama Khedkar sealedMeanwhile the PimpriChinchwad civic body on Friday sealed an engineering firm linked to the mother of controversial probationary Indian Administrative Service IAS officer Puja Khedkar over unpaid property tax amounting to nearly Rs 2 lakh municipal officials said a PTI report stated on FridayThe junior bureaucrats mother Manorama Khedkar is currently in the custody of Pune police in a criminal caseThe PimpriChinchwad Municipal Corporation PCMC in Pune district sealed the defunct firm Thermoverita India Pvt Ltd located in the Talawade area over unpaid property duesNotably Puja Khedkar while applying for a disability certificate at the Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital YCM in the PimpriChinchwad township for selection into civil services under quota had given the engineering firms location as her residential addressThe property tax for 20222023 and 20232024 for Thermoverita India Pvt Ltd has been pending for the last two years Additionally the current years outstanding is also pending As their dues were unpaid in 2023 first they owner were issued notices and later as a graded response we first snapped their water connection as per the PTISince the dues are unpaid for the last two years we as a next procedure sealed the property said PCMC commissioner Shekhar Singh accotding to the PTIThe total outstanding for the last two years was Rs 196 lakh and if the current years dues are added the pending amount goes up to Rs 277 lakh he saidManorama Khedkar was arrested on Thursday by the Pune rural police for allegedly threatening some persons with a gun over a land dispute at Dhadwali village in Mulshi tehsil in 2023In more trouble for Puja Khedkar the Union Public Service Commission UPSC on Friday took a series of action including registration of a police case against the batch probationary IAS officer for fraudulently availing attempts in the civil services examination by faking her identityThe commission has also issued a show cause notice for cancellation of her candidature of the civil services examination2022 and debarment from future examinations and selectionswith PTI inputs