UPSC in action: Trainee IAS Pooja Khedkar’s post taken away

Banned from all examinations

New Delhi (Team Newsbuddy): The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has taken strict action against trainee IAS Pooja Khedkar. The commission has taken away Pooja Khedkar’s IAS post and has permanently banned her from all future examinations. This information has been given by the commission itself.

UPSC has cancelled the provisional candidature of provisionally recommended candidate Pooja Manorama Dilip Khedkar in the Civil Services Examination-2022 (CSE-2022). The commission said that by cancelling the candidature of Pooja Khedkar, she has been permanently banned from all future examinations and selections.

On July 19, the Crime Branch of Delhi Police registered a case against Pooja Khedkar for misusing the disability and other backward class (non-creamy layer) quota to secure her candidature in the civil services examination. In this case, the anticipatory bail plea of ​​Pooja Khedkar was heard in Delhi’s Patiala House Court on Tuesday. According to the report of Live Law, advocate Bina Madhavan, appearing for Khedkar, told the court that her client was being targeted for filing a sexual harassment case against the collector.

First, Pooja Khedkar was accused of demanding a red light, VVIP number car and her own cabin in a private car as a trainee officer in Maharashtra. After this, questions were raised on her selection and her lie was exposed during the investigation of the case.