Trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar’s mother detained for weapon flashing during land dispute
Pune Rural Police had launched a search for Manorama and her husband Dilip Khedkar after a video surfaced showing her allegedly threatening some persons with a gun over a land dispute at Dhadwali village in Pune’s Mulshi tehsil.
Police have detained Manorama Khedkar, mother of controversial IAS probationer Puja Khedkar, in a case of allegedly threatening some persons by flashing a gun over a land dispute, officials said on Wednesday, July 17, 2024.
She was apprehended from a hotel in Mahad in Maharashtra’s Raigad district, a Pune police official said.
Police had launched a search for Manorama and her husband Dilip Khedkar after a video surfaced showing her allegedly threatening some persons with a gun over a land dispute at Dhadwali village in Pune’s Mulshi tehsil.
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The Paud police in Pune rural have booked the Khedkar couple and five others under the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) sections, including 323 (dishonest or fraudulent removal or concealment of property), and relevant provisions of the Arms act.
“Manorama Khedkar has been detained from Mahad in Raigad district and she is being brought to Pune where, after due enquiry, further legal action will be taken,” Superintendent of Police, Pune Rural, Pankaj Deshmukh, said.
Multiple teams had been formed to trace Manorama, her husband and five others accused in the case.
