The UPSC had earlier mentioned Puja Khedkar dedicated a fraud in opposition to the fee (File)
New Delhi:
The Delhi Police has informed the excessive courtroom that former IAS probationer Puja Khedkar submitted two incapacity certificates to indicate a number of disabilities and its probe has revealed that one of many paperwork could also be “cast” and “fabricated”.
The Delhi Police made the submission in response to the anticipatory bail plea of Puja Khedkar, who has been accused of dishonest and wrongly availing Different Backward Courses (OBC) and incapacity quota advantages.
The company mentioned Puja Khedkar submitted the 2 incapacity certificates for the civil companies examinations-2022 and civil companies examinations-2023 respectively.
After verification, the “Issuing Medical Authority, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra”, has nevertheless claimed that the certificates that confirmed locomotor incapacity, listening to impairment and low imaginative and prescient was not issued in accordance with the “Civil Surgeon Workplace Data” and “the opportunity of the incapacity certificates being cast and fabricated is extra seemingly”, the standing report knowledgeable.
The matter is scheduled for listening to on September 5.
Puja Khedkar allegedly misrepresented data in her software for the UPSC Civil Companies Examination, 2022 to get reservation advantages.
On July 31, the Un9ion Public Service Fee (UPSC) cancelled her candidature and debarred her from future exams.
She has denied all allegations.
On August 29, the courtroom had prolonged the interim safety from arrest granted to Puja Khedkar until September 5.
Each the UPSC and the Delhi Police have sought dismissal of her plea for pre-arrest bail.
The UPSC had earlier mentioned Puja Khedkar dedicated a fraud in opposition to the fee and the general public, and her custodial interrogation was essential to unearth the “magnitude of the fraud” that would not have been executed with out the assistance of different people.
The Delhi Police has claimed that any aid to her would hinder its probe into the “deep-rooted conspiracy” and that the case has wider implications on public belief in addition to the integrity of the civil companies examination.
The UPSC initiated a collection of actions in opposition to Puja Khedkar final month, together with lodging a legal case in opposition to her for availing makes an attempt within the civil companies examination by faking identification.
The Delhi Police has registered an FIR below provisions of the Indian Penal Code, Data Know-how Act and Proper of Individuals with Disabilities Act.
On August 1, a periods courtroom right here had denied anticipatory bail to Puja Khedkar and mentioned there are severe allegations in opposition to her, which “require an intensive investigation”.
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