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Former trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar has moved Delhi High Court with a petition challenging the UPSC’s press release announcing the cancellation of her candidature on July 31 with the petition due to come up for hearing on August 7.
Khedkar, represented by advocate Bina Madhavan, has sought quashing the UPSC’s decision of cancelling her candidature. It was Khedkar’s case that the UPSC’s declaration to cancel her candidature in CSE 2022 and bar her from appearing for any future exams held by it had been issued without following relevant rules, or specifically Rule 19 of Civil Services Examination Rules 2022, nor granting her an opportunity for a hearing. It was also Khedkar’s case that she had not been provided with a copy of the UPSC order cancelling her candidature.
Seeking urgent listing before the court of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela, the matter is now expected to be taken up for hearing on August 7.
Meanwhile, a Delhi court on July 1 had refused to grant her anticipatory bail, with the court also indicating that the Delhi police should expand the scope of its probe to see if anyone from the UPSC had helped Khedkar. She is also expected to move Delhi HC later this week, challenging the trial court’s verdict.
The UPSC has accused Khedkar of “fraudulently availing attempts beyond the permissible limit under the Examination Rules by faking her identity by way of changing her name, her father’s and mother’s name, her photograph/signature, her email id, mobile number and address”. The Delhi police had earlier lodged an FIR against Khedkar based on a complaint filed by UPSC.
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