New Delhi:
The Union Public Service Fee has issued a discover to cancel number of trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar, who was being investigated for mendacity about visible and psychological disabilities and faking her identification (together with altering the names of her mother and father) to clear the Civil Providers entrance examination.
A notification issued Friday afternoon stated Ms Khedkar “fraudulently availed makes an attempt past the permissible restrict”, and the UPSC had “initiated a collection of actions towards” the 23-year-old.
These embrace Delhi Police submitting cost, which embrace forgery, below the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities and IT Act. The UPSC has additionally despatched a show-cause discover asking Ms Khedkar why her candidature shouldn’t be cancelled. Additional motion will rely upon Ms Khedkar’s reply.
This might embrace disbarring her from taking the doorway examination sooner or later.
“… the UPSC stringently adheres to its Constitutional mandate, and conducts all its processes, together with all examinations, with the very best attainable order of due diligence with none compromise. The fee is dedicated to making sure… belief and credibility stays intact.”
Motion towards Ms Khedkar got here hours after the Maharashtra authorities submitted a report back to the centre, particularly the Division of Personnel and Coaching.
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This report is a set of paperwork collated from a number of sources to check Puja Khedkar’s many claims, together with bodily incapacity and her OBC, or different backward class, standing.
It contains point out of Ms Khedkar’s alleged abuse of energy throughout her first posting.
She had been despatched to Pune an Assistant Collector, and later transferred to Washim. This was after information broke she had secured perks, like a siren on her non-public automobile, not out there to on-probation employees.
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As soon as these allegations surfaced, they had been adopted by others that stated she used faux incapacity certificates to qualify for the IAS regardless of a really modest all-India rank of 841 within the entrance check.
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Information additionally emerged of how she tried to safe these faux certificates, first approaching a hospital in Pune, which turned her down, after which succeeding at one other in Pipri, which recognized her with an “previous ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) tear with left knee instability”.
Sources instructed NDTV Ms Khedkar may very well be dismissed if discovered responsible.
Earlier this week she was recalled from Washim to the Lal Bahadur Shastri Nationwide Academy of Administration in Uttarakhand’s Mussoorie, the place future authorities officers are skilled.
On Wednesday Ms Khedkar, who has been largely silent because the row broke, counter-attacked by accusing the Pune Collector, Suhas Divase, of harassment. The grievance was made late night time (previous 11 pm) at her residence in Washim. She had summoned three feminine law enforcement officials to her residence.
Mr Divase has stated he has not but obtained a duplicate of the grievance however has denied all costs.
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Earlier his workplace had launched a report with screenshots of Ms Khedkar’s WhatsApp chats with an unidentified official. Within the messages she sought particulars about perks not out there to probationary employees.
Ms Khedkar has additionally accused the press of conducting a “media trial”.
In the meantime, her mother and father are actually roiled in authorized instances of their very own.
Manorama Khedkar, her mom, has been charged with try and homicide after an previous video of her waving a gun in a person’s face went viral. She has been arrested and is in police custody.
Dilip Khedkar, her father, faces a probe by Pune’ Anti-Corruption Bureau after a grievance that his belongings had been disproportionate to his earnings. A retired state authorities officer, he had been suspended twice – on corruption costs – when he was working. He’s nonetheless on the run.
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