An “unlawful” construction close to trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar’s household bungalow in Pune has been cleared, days after the civic physique issued them a discover to take away it, an official stated on Wednesday.
Khedkar’s household might need bought the alleged encroachment eliminated because the deadline set by the Pune Municipal Company (PMC) just isn’t but over, the official stated.
PMC officers had on July 13 pasted a discover outdoors the bungalow within the metropolis’s Baner Highway space asking the IAS officer’s household to clear an “unauthorised” construction measuring 60 toes in size,
3 toes in width and with a peak of two toes alongside a footpath adjoining the property.
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“We had put up the discover on the bungalow asking them (Khedkar’s household) to take away the encroachment inside seven days. The discover stated if the household didn’t take away the construction inside seven days, PMC would clear it and get well the bills from them,” stated a senior civic official.
The Pune civic physique has not cleared the construction for the reason that deadline just isn’t but over, the official stated. “In all probability the household bought it eliminated by using non-public employees,” he stated.
Khedkar is within the eye of a storm for allegedly misusing the incapacity and Different Backward Class (OBC) quota to safe a place within the IAS moreover dealing with allegations of unwarranted conduct throughout her posting on the Pune collector’s workplace.
In the meantime, her dad and mom Manorama and Dilip Khedkar stay untraceable, days after police registered an FIR towards them over a video purportedly displaying them threatening some individuals with a gun following a land dispute in Mulshi tehsil of Pune district.
The Paud police in Pune rural have booked her dad and mom and 5 others underneath the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) sections, together with 323 (dishonest or fraudulent removing or concealment of property).
The 2-minute-long video reveals Manorama Khedkar with a pistol, accompanied by her safety guards, engaged in a heated argument with some individuals at Dhadwali village, an official had stated.
In response to the official, the incident involved a land parcel purchased by Dilip Khedkar, a retired Maharashtra authorities worker. Locals had claimed the Khedkars had encroached on the land of neighbouring farmers.
The federal government on Tuesday placed on maintain the district coaching programme of Puja Khedkar, a 2023 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, as she was summoned again to the Lal Bahadur Shastri Nationwide Academy of Administration for “mandatory motion”, officers had stated.
The 34-year-old IAS officer got here underneath the highlight after studies about her alleged calls for for a separate workplace and official automobile and unauthorised use of a beacon on her non-public automobile emerged. She was subsequently transferred to Washim from Pune.
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