Maharashtra cadre trainee IAS officer Pooja Khedkar will no longer be an officer. His provisional candidature has been canceled by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). This blow has affected them not only in the present time but also on their future prospects. Even before becoming an officer, Pooja had come into limelight on the basis of her charm and jugaad, the same charm has eclipsed her career. In such a situation, let us know where Pooja went wrong and which tricks did she fall prey to?
Pooja Khedkar had passed the country’s most prestigious IAS examination. His All India rank was 841. She was going to join as Assistant Collector after training. But the idea of installing red-blue beacons on the vehicle and the attempt to capture the Additional Collector’s chamber spoiled their entire game.
One mistake and the game is ruined
Pooja Khedkar’s case came into limelight when her desire to install red beacon on her personal Audi car and her attempts to capture the chamber of Pune Additional Collector Suhas Diwase made headlines. Divas also complained to Pooja in this regard, after which she was transferred to Washim. But the story does not end here.
Trap of fake certificates…
After Pooja Khedkar came into limelight, when the investigation into her becoming an IAS started, layers of lies were revealed one after another. Pooja had submitted a fake certificate of OBC category to get into the UPSC quota even though she is a creamy layer OBC. Not only OBC, Khedkar had shown fake certificate of disability in UPSC. Pooja Khedkar had said in UPSC that she had mental problems and weak eyesight. Apart from this, there was also talk of locomotor disability in the left knee. Regarding mental problem, he told that he cannot remember things. There is a regular disabled quota for such students in UPSC.
After this, UPSC decided to get Pooja investigated in AIIMS. UPSC considers only the reports of government hospitals. UPSC wanted to confirm through this report that Pooja really has mental illness and her eyesight is weak. UPSC took a total of six appointments from doctors at AIIMS for Pooja’s medical test, but you will be surprised to know that Pooja avoided the test by making excuses every time. When the investigation was done, Pooja’s mental certificate was also found to be fake.
Not only this, in the application given to the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) in 2020, Pooja had declared her age as 30 years. But in the application given in 2023, the age was mentioned as 31 years. Pooja changed her name and that of her parents and took the exam more times than the prescribed number of attempts. OBC candidates can give only 9 attempts, but Pooja took the exam more times than this.
Records of 15 years were searched
To investigate the Pooja Khedkar case, UPSC reviewed the data of the last 15 years. After this it came to light that Khedkar’s was the only case in which it could not be ascertained how many times Khedkar had given the UPSC exam. Because every time he had changed not only his name but also the names of his parents. Now in the future This cannot happen. For this, UPSC is preparing to further strengthen the SOP.
Anticipatory bail petition rejected
Surrounded from all sides, Pooja had approached the court for anticipatory bail. But Patiala House Court has rejected the anticipatory bail plea of dismissed IAS officer Pooja Khedkar. Pooja had approached the court saying that she has not committed any kind of rigging or fraud but has presented whatever correct documents she has from her side before UPSC.