Khedkar family removed ‘encroachment’ on footpath outside house voluntarily: PMC

On July 13, the PMC served notice to Puja’s mother, Manorama Khedkar, for encroachment on civic-owned land outside her residence at the National Housing Society on Baner Road, Aundh. The notice said the civic body had found that a structure along the 60-foot-long boundary wall of the residence, three feet wide and two feet high, was encroaching upon the civic land meant for road purposes.

#WATCH | Maharashtra: Action being taken against illegal encroachment at IAS trainee Pooja Khedkar’s Pune residence. pic.twitter.com/xvBQhxxtIO

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“The encroachment is causing inconvenience to citizens by preventing them from using the road and footpath. The PMC has also received a complaint regarding it. The encroachment on Baner Road just outside your property is causing safety concerns for citizens using the road,” it said.

Khedkar and her family have been the subject of a media storm over her availing the disability and non-creamy layer Other Backward Classes (IBC) quota to secure an IAS rank in the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).

On Tuesday, Khedkar was recalled to the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) in Mussoorie and her ‘district training programme’ was put ‘on hold’. Additionally, her mother and father have also faced police complaints over an alleged incident of threatening farmers in Mulshi’s Dhadwali village last year.