PUNE, JULY 13 : Pune police has registered an FIR against the parents of Puja Khedkar after an old video of the controversial trainee IAS officer’s mother wielding a pistol at farmers went viral. The FIR was lodged against Manorama Khedkar and Dilip Khedkar following a complaint by a farmer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The case has been registered under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 323, 504, 506, 143, 144, 147, 148 and 149 and sections of the Indian Arms Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The development came after Pune Rural police took cognisance of the video, said to be at least a year old, in which Khedkar’s mother Manorama is seen allegedly threatening farmers with a pistol in Pune’s Mulshi tehsil over a land dispute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dilip Khedkar, Puja’s father, a retired government servant, had purchased 25 acres of land in Mulshi tehsil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The two-minute video shows Manorama, accompanied by bouncers, arguing with a person about ownership of a plot of land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the video, Manorama is heard shouting at the man in Marathi that the ‘Saat-Baara-Utara’, a document maintained by the revenue department of the state for tax collection purposes, was in her name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“You may be the real owner… but this place is also in my name… So what if the matter is in court? I will see how you take everything. I am not afraid of anyone,” Manorama says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The person, presumably a farmer, then says that the matter was in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“But madam, the court’s decision has not come yet. I am still the real owner of this place,” the person says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The police said it would also probe if Manorama had a licence to own a firearm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Puja Khedkar, a 2023-batch IAS officer of the Maharashtra cadre, recently hit the headlines after she was transferred from Pune to Washim over her inappropriate demands and indiscipline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She had also unauthorisedly installed a beacon and Maharashtra state government insignia on her luxury Audi car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There have also been allegations that she availed Other Backward Class (OBC) benefits as well as disability concessions to secure her position in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Centre has formed a one-member committee to probe her conduct and selection process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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