Trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar continues to grab headlines, as the controversy over the authenticity of her claims of disability and OBC status, which led to her appointment to the civil services, refuses to die down. She is also accused of abusing her position of authority when she worked at the Pune collector’s office. However, when the issue received more media attention, embarrassing details regarding her parents, Manorama and Dilip Khedkar, a retired state government employee, were also revealed.
Here’s all we know about them. The investigation The Centre has directed the Pune police to apprise it of the marital status of the parents of controversial IAS probationer Puja Khedkar amid allegations that she fraudulently availed of the OBC non-creamy layer benefit in the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) exam by claiming that they were separated, an official said. Talking to news agency PTI , a senior official of the Pune police confirmed that the central government has asked them to apprise it of whether the parents of Puja Khedkar - mother Manorama and father Dilip - were divorced.
“We have been asked to find out and inform the central government about whether Puja Khedkar’s parents were divorced. In a nutshell, it has asked us to verify the actual status of their marriage/divorce,” the official said. Fake separation, income details To avail of the Other Backward Classes (OBC) non-creamy layer quota in the UPSC, Khedkar had reportedly claimed that her pare.
