Trainee IAS Officer Puja Khedkar's Mother Manorama Arrested; Sent To Police Custody Till July 20

Pune Police have arrested Manorama Khedkar, mother of controversial IAS probationer Puja Khedkar, in a case of allegedly threatening some persons by brandishing a gun over a land dispute, officials said on Wednesday.  The police today told the court that it added Section 307 of IPC to existing FIR against Manorama Khedkar and six others while seeking a 7-day custody of the accused. The court later sent Manorama Khedkar to police custody till July 20.

Manorama Khedkar was apprehended from Mahad in Maharashtra's Raigad district, a Pune police official said. Police had launched a search for Manorama and her husband Dilip Khedkar after a video surfaced showing her allegedly threatening some persons with a gun over a land dispute at Dhadwali village in Pune's Mulshi tehsil.

The Paud police in Pune rural have booked the Khedkar couple and five others under the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) sections, including 323 (dishonest or fraudulent removal or concealment of property), and relevant provisions of the Arms act.

"Manorama Khedkar has been detained from Mahad in Raigad district and she is being brought to Pune where, after the completion of formalities, she will be placed under arrest," Superintendent of Police, Pune Rural, Pankaj Deshmukh, said.

Multiple teams were formed to trace Manorama, her husband and five others accused in the case.