Pune: A Pune court docket on Friday granted bail to former IAS trainee officer Puja Khedkar’s mom Manorama in an try to homicide case which was filed after she was seen in a video allegedly brandishing a gun whereas confronting a bunch of individuals over a land dispute.
Extra Periods Decide AN Mare granted bail to Manorama Khedkar, a fortnight after she was arrested, and imposed a set of circumstances on her, mentioned her counsel advocate Sudhir Shah.
The Decide, whereas permitting the bail utility, said within the order that Manorama Khedkar be launched on executing a private bond of Rs 50,000 with a number of sureties of the identical quantity.
The court docket requested the accused to not affect witnesses and cooperate within the investigation of the case.
“The applicant shall not contact the informant and witnesses within the case by any mode of communication and shall not attempt to affect them in any method,” the order said.
The order additionally said that the applicant shall not enter the jurisdiction of Pune’s Paud police station, the place the case has been registered, until the investigation was accomplished and cooperate within the ongoing probe.
She ought to attend the police station involved as and when required by the investigating officer and for such goal, she will enter its jurisdiction, it mentioned.
The applicant shall not depart Pune district with out informing the investigating officer and jurisdictional Justice of the Peace until the probe towards her was accomplished, mentioned the court docket.
Advocate Shah, throughout his argument on the bail plea, informed the court docket that the appliance of IPC part 307 (try to homicide) was unwarranted within the case as no bullet was fired.
The Pune rural police had launched a seek for Manorama Khedkar and her husband Dilip, a retired Maharashtra authorities officer, after a video surfaced exhibiting her allegedly threatening some individuals with a gun over a land dispute at Dhadwali village in Pune’s Mulshi tehsil in 2023.
The video got here to gentle across the time when Puja Khedkar’s choice for civil providers was underneath the scanner.
The police had booked the Khedkar couple and 5 others underneath IPC sections, together with 307 (try to homicide), 144 (illegal meeting armed with lethal weapon), 147 (rioting) and 506 (prison intimidation) moreover invoking the Arms Act.
Manorama Khedkar was apprehended from a lodge in Hirkaniwadi village in Raigad district and positioned underneath arrest in mid-July. Her husband Dilip Khedkar has already secured anticipatory bail within the case.
The Union Public Service Fee (UPSC) on Wednesday mentioned it had cancelled the provisional candidature of probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar and debarred her from all future examinations or alternatives.
A day later, a Delhi court docket denied anticipatory bail to Puja Khedkar, who has been accused of dishonest and wrongly availing of OBC and incapacity quota advantages, saying these are severe allegations that “require a radical investigation”.
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